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Mobile Malicious Node Detection Using Mobile Agent in Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

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Many application domains require that sensor node to be deployed in harsh or hostile environments, such as active volcano area tracking endangered species, etc. making these nodes more prone to failures. The most challenging problem is monitoring the illegal movement within the sensor networks. Attacker prefers mobile malicious node because by making the diversity of path intruder maximize his impact. The emerging technology of sensor network expected Intrusion detection technique for a dynamic environment. In this paper, a defective mechanism based on three-step negotiation is performed for identifying the mobile malicious node using the mobile agent. In many approaches, the multi-mobile agents are used to collect the data from all the sensor nodes after verification. But it is inefficient to verify all the sensor nodes (SNs) in the network, because of mobility, energy consumption, and high delay. In the proposed system this can be solved by grouping sensor nodes into clusters and a single mobile agent performs verification only with all the cluster heads instead of verifying all the SNs. The simulation result shows the proposed system shows a better result than the existing system.

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Gandhimathi, L., Murugaboopathi, G. Mobile Malicious Node Detection Using Mobile Agent in Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 117, 1209–1222 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07918-7

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