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Abandonment Attack on the LEACH Protocol

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Despite their popularity and widespread use, wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to different types of attacks due to their low energy consumption, simplicity and scalability constraints. This paper explores the possible network-layer attacks on WSN routing protocols. In addition, it proposes a comprehensive method for measuring the impact of network-layer attacks on WSNs. Moreover, it introduces a new network-layer attack – called “abandonment attack” – on one such WSN routing protocol, the low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy protocol. Last, it measures the impact of the abandonment attack on the LEACH protocol. In the end, this paper finds that the abandonment attack increases the collision rate and the end-to-end delay on the LEACH protocol and decreases the network lifetime.

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    The researchers used different names for the attacks in their study.

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  1. School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Albatool Alhawas & Nigel Thomas

  2. College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Albatool Alhawas

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  1. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Marco Gribaudo

  2. Università degli Studi della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy

    Mauro Iacono

  3. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Tuan Phung-Duc

  4. Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Rostislav Razumchik

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Alhawas, A., Thomas, N. (2020). Abandonment Attack on the LEACH Protocol. In: Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., Phung-Duc, T., Razumchik, R. (eds) Computer Performance Engineering. EPEW 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12039. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44411-2_1

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