Visible to the public Impact of Minimizing the Eavesdropping Risks on Lifetime of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

TitleImpact of Minimizing the Eavesdropping Risks on Lifetime of Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsOzmen, Alper, Yildiz, Huseyin Ugur, Tavli, Bulent
Conference Name2020 28th Telecommunications Forum (℡FOR)
Date PublishedNov. 2020
PublisherIEEE
ISBN Number978-1-6654-0499-0
KeywordsBatteries, Cyber physical system, eavesdropping, eavesdropping attack, Energy efficiency, Linear programming, Metrics, network lifetime, Numerical models, Optimization, pubcrawl, Receivers, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, security, underwater, underwater acoustic sensor networks, Underwater acoustics, Underwater Networks
AbstractUnderwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) are often deployed in hostile environments, and they face many security threats. Moreover, due to the harsh characteristics of the underwater environment, UASNs are vulnerable to malicious attacks. One of the most dangerous security threats is the eavesdropping attack, where an adversary silently collects the information exchanged between the sensor nodes. Although careful assignment of transmission power levels and optimization of data flow paths help alleviate the extent of eavesdropping attacks, the network lifetime can be negatively affected since routing could be established using sub-optimal paths in terms of energy efficiency. In this work, two optimization models are proposed where the first model minimizes the potential eavesdropping risks in the network while the second model maximizes the network lifetime under a certain level of an eavesdropping risk. The results show that network lifetimes obtained when the eavesdropping risks are minimized significantly shorter than the network lifetimes obtained without considering any eavesdropping risks. Furthermore, as the countermeasures against the eavesdropping risks are relaxed, UASN lifetime is shown to be prolonged, significantly.
URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9306557
DOI10.1109/℡FOR51502.2020.9306557
Citation Keyozmen_impact_2020