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An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are low-cost, special-purpose networks introduced to resolve various daily life domestic, industrial, and strategic problems. These networks are deployed in such places where the repairments, in most cases, become difficult. The nodes in WSNs, due to their vulnerable...

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Autores principales: Khan, Muhammad Altaf, Nasralla, Moustafa M., Umar, Muhammad Muneer, Ghani-Ur-Rehman, Khan, Shafiullah, Choudhury, Nikumani
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8777834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35062372
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22020410
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author Khan, Muhammad Altaf
Nasralla, Moustafa M.
Umar, Muhammad Muneer
Ghani-Ur-Rehman,
Khan, Shafiullah
Choudhury, Nikumani
author_facet Khan, Muhammad Altaf
Nasralla, Moustafa M.
Umar, Muhammad Muneer
Ghani-Ur-Rehman,
Khan, Shafiullah
Choudhury, Nikumani
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description Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are low-cost, special-purpose networks introduced to resolve various daily life domestic, industrial, and strategic problems. These networks are deployed in such places where the repairments, in most cases, become difficult. The nodes in WSNs, due to their vulnerable nature, are always prone to various potential threats. The deployed environment of WSNs is noncentral, unattended, and administrativeless; therefore, malicious attacks such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can easily be commenced by the attackers. Most of the DDoS detection systems rely on the analysis of the flow of traffic, ultimately with a conclusion that high traffic may be due to the DDoS attack. On the other hand, legitimate users may produce a larger amount of traffic known, as the flash crowd (FC). Both DDOS and FC are considered abnormal traffic in communication networks. The detection of such abnormal traffic and then separation of DDoS attacks from FC is also a focused challenge. This paper introduces a novel mechanism based on a Bayesian model to detect abnormal data traffic and discriminate DDoS attacks from FC in it. The simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism, compared with the existing systems.
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spelling pubmed-87778342022-01-22 An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Khan, Muhammad Altaf Nasralla, Moustafa M. Umar, Muhammad Muneer Ghani-Ur-Rehman, Khan, Shafiullah Choudhury, Nikumani Sensors (Basel) Article Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are low-cost, special-purpose networks introduced to resolve various daily life domestic, industrial, and strategic problems. These networks are deployed in such places where the repairments, in most cases, become difficult. The nodes in WSNs, due to their vulnerable nature, are always prone to various potential threats. The deployed environment of WSNs is noncentral, unattended, and administrativeless; therefore, malicious attacks such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can easily be commenced by the attackers. Most of the DDoS detection systems rely on the analysis of the flow of traffic, ultimately with a conclusion that high traffic may be due to the DDoS attack. On the other hand, legitimate users may produce a larger amount of traffic known, as the flash crowd (FC). Both DDOS and FC are considered abnormal traffic in communication networks. The detection of such abnormal traffic and then separation of DDoS attacks from FC is also a focused challenge. This paper introduces a novel mechanism based on a Bayesian model to detect abnormal data traffic and discriminate DDoS attacks from FC in it. The simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism, compared with the existing systems. MDPI 2022-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8777834/ /pubmed/35062372 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22020410 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Choudhury, Nikumani
An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
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title_fullStr An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full_unstemmed An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_short An Efficient Multilevel Probabilistic Model for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_sort efficient multilevel probabilistic model for abnormal traffic detection in wireless sensor networks
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8777834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35062372
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22020410
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