Sybilsecure: an Energy Efficient Sybil Attack Detection Technique in Wireless Sensor Network

A wireless sensor network consists of many sensor nodes which are deployed to monitor physical or environmental conditions and to pass the collected data to a base station. Though wireless sensor network is subjected to have major applications in all the areas, it also has many security threats and attacks. Among all threats such as sinkhole, wormhole, selective forwarding, denial of service and node replication, Sybil attack is a major attack where a single node has multiple identities. When a Sybil node act as a sender, it can send false data to its neighbors. When it acts as receiver, it can receive the data which is originally destined for a legitimate node. The existing solutions consume more energy. So an energy efficient algorithm named Sybilsecure is proposed. Experimental results show that Sybilsecure consumes less energy than existing defense mechanisms.