Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets

Farouq Aliyu; Sani Umar; Talal Alkharobi; Uthman Baroudi

doi:10.1109/MENACOMM46666.2019.8988581

Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets

Farouq Aliyu, Sani Umar, Talal Alkharobi, Uthman Baroudi

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Abstract

The Base Station (BS) is responsible for managing the network, it serves as a sink to all data and it serves a gateway to the outside world. Therefore, compromising the BS is the holy grail of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) hacking. One of the key techniques used in disabling a network is finding the physical location of the BS and destroying it. This can be achieved through traffic volume analysis. Since the sensor nodes usually send a small amount of data, the data can be cascaded into one Super-packet. This will reduce traffic as well as noise in the network. This technique is the underlying concept behind data funneling. However, data funneling can only reduce the traffic but the relative traffic of the BS compared to the other sensor nodes is still ginormous. Therefore, fake packets from the sensor nodes are needed to cloak the BS. In this paper, data funneling and Proportional Integral and Derivative (PID) controlled fake packets are used to reduce the number of packets sent to the BS and control fake packets generated by the sensor nodes to hide the BS respectively. The proposed system reduces the traffic of the system by a factor of K, where K is the ratio of 1 to the maximum number of packets that can be fused into one packet.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728136875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MENACOMM46666.2019.8988581
State	Published - Nov 2019

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Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, under the grant IN171025.

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© 2019 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems and Management
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture

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Aliyu, F., Umar, S., Alkharobi, T., & Baroudi, U. (2019). Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets. In 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019 [8988581] (2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/MENACOMM46666.2019.8988581

Aliyu, Farouq ; Umar, Sani ; Alkharobi, Talal et al. / Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets. 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. (2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019).

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Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets. / Aliyu, Farouq; Umar, Sani; Alkharobi, Talal et al.
2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8988581 (2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019).

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Aliyu F, Umar S, Alkharobi T , Baroudi U. Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets. In 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019. 8988581. (2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa COMMunications Conference, MENACOMM 2019). doi: 10.1109/MENACOMM46666.2019.8988581

Improving Base Station Anonymity using Data Funneling and PID Controlled Fake Packets

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