Security Issues In Wireless Sensor Networks

Xiaoming Lu, University of California, Davis

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

As wireless nodes are battery powered, many Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been proposed to reduce energy consumption. Security issues related to the design of energy efficient protocols have, however, been largely ignored. In this talk, we present a new generic attack (the synchronization attack) on listen-sleep MAC protocols.