TQDS: TIME STAMPED QUANTUM DIGITAL SIGNATURE TO DEFEND WORMHOLE ATTACK IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

T. Akila, P. Uma Maheswari, S.N.Sivanandam

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network has a lot of problems related to routing. In routing protocol, wormhole attacker can make interference on the routing process by establishing short circuiting the normal flow of routing packets. This attack makes severe threats to both routing protocol and security enhancement. Such attack may strictly damage the communication among the nodes. Our aspect is to provide the best solutions to secure transmission over the network by using quantum cryptosystem. In this proposed approach, we present a detecting mechanism called Time stamped Quantum Digital Signature (TQDS) along with quantum one-way function, which is unconditionally secure even against wormhole attacks. It is based on node authentication which is implemented by neighbor discovery process. TQDS is based on quantum mechanism for neighbor discovery process. The quantum technique for secure communication against wormhole attackers is carried out. Using TQDS, the sensor nodes can be authenticated with one another and these nodes are communicated through quantum channel.

Keywords: wormhole attack, quantum cryptography, quantum digital signature, quantum one-way function, quantum channel.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0319023