Seek and Destroy: Targeted Resource Depletion Attacks on Sensor Networks

Denial of service attacks can be catastrophic in wireless sensor networks. Typical denial of service attacks consist of either communications jamming or resource depletion through forcing continuous stimuli and communication between motes on the network. Localization is another interesting challenge in the world of sensor networks. Many applications utilizing sensor networks require that the analyst know approximately where the sensor is located to get maximum benefit from the information received. The scope of this research effort will be to conduct a survey of existing theory and practice in the areas of sensor network security and nonGPS based localization mechanisms utilized in sensor networks. By analyzing the above two technologies, a targeted, resource-depletion based denial of service attack will be