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Improved Authentication in Secured Multicast Wireless Sensor Network (MWSN) Using Opposition Frog Leaping Algorithm to Resist Man-in-Middle Attack

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Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in modern times enables security techniques to secure the information transmitted via the interconnected network. The poor security services in WSN environment erupts to more attacks and misbehavior of nodes. Hence, it requires an effective security mechanism that should avoid the degradation of network performance with security flaws. In these regards, the sensor node authentication becomes critical with increased attacks and threats, and with increasing communication between the sensor nodes. Hence, the complexity associated with security protocols increases and that enables the networks to misbehave. In this paper, we design a light-weight authentication mechanism using a dual topology in multicast WSNs. It is the authentication is improved using EdDS Algorithm (EdDSA) with an XOR functionality. Finally, the uncertainty in choosing the misbehaving nodes for further communication is optimally found by a theoretical game model. This avoids the illegitimate access of non-malicious nodes in multicast environment, while it ensures fastest authentication. In this way, the authentication of the nodes in the network is tested and validated against man-in-middle attack. The simulation results show that the proposed EdDSA-XOR functionality has 0.13% and 0.07% of reduced time consumption and reduced energy consumption, respectively than other methods.

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Abbreviations

N :

Base node

q :

Probability

Su :

Success

Pn :

Penalty

Rw :

Reward

Wm :

Wimpy

Acc :

Accept

Rej :

Reject

β :

Belief Assessment

\(\mu\) :

Belief Probability

p,L :

Odd prime number

b :

Bits

H :

Cryptographic hash function

c or n :

Integer

Rw :

Reward

Pn :

Penalty

Su :

Surly

Wm :

Wimpy

Acc :

Accept

Rej :

Reject

d,a :

Non-square element

GF :

Galois field

B :

Element

E :

Elliptical curve

PH :

Prehash or identity function

M :

Key length of the output

EN :

Encode

Rw :

Reward

Pn :

Penalty

Su :

Surly

Wm :

Wimpy

Acc :

Accept

Rej :

Reject

β 1(a|b):

Probability of c type relevant to node n1 after the selection of a

β 2(a|b):

Probability of b type relevant to node n1 after viewing c

μ(a|b):

Guessing of n2 from the node n1 by viewing c

ui(a|b|c):

Pay-off factor, which is associated with sent message by the node n1 or the action selected by n2

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  1. Research And Development, ICT Academy, Chennai, India

    N. Yuvaraj & R. Arshath Raja

  2. Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Technology and Applied Sciences (Higher College of Technology), Muscat, Oman

    T. Karthikeyan

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, AP, India

    K. Praghash

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Conceptualization: NY; Methodology: KP, RAR; Formal analysis and investigation: TK, KP; Writing—original draft preparation: RAR, KP, TK; Writing—review and editing: KP, RAR, TK.

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Yuvaraj, N., Raja, R.A., Karthikeyan, T. et al. Improved Authentication in Secured Multicast Wireless Sensor Network (MWSN) Using Opposition Frog Leaping Algorithm to Resist Man-in-Middle Attack. Wireless Pers Commun 123, 1715–1731 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09209-1

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