Kechar Bouabdellah

Work place: Industrial Computing and Networking Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University of Oran, BP 1524 Oran, Algeria

E-mail: kechar.bouabdellah@univ-oran.dz

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Kechar Bouabdellah is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Oran University, Algeria. He has authored several journal publications, refereed conference publications and one book chapter. He has been a member of the technical program and organizing committees of several international IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops. He also serves as a referee of renowned journals. His current research interests include mobile wireless sensor/actuator networks, Zigbee/IEEE 802.15.4 technologies deployment, and heterogeneous wireless networks, with special emphasis on radio resource management techniques, performance modeling, provisioning QoS and practical societal and industrial applications.

Author Articles
A Security Scheme against Wormhole Attack in MAC Layer for Delay Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks

By Louazani Ahmed Sekhri Larbi Kechar Bouabdellah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2014.12.01, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2014

The main objective of this paper is to secure a cross-layer, energy efficient MAC protocol (CL-MAC) dedicated to delay sensitive wireless sensor networks (WSN) for detecting and avoiding wormhole attack. CL-MAC protocol is the result of our previous research works for which the security aspects have not been taken into consideration during its design stage. To formally prove the importance of the proposed scheme, we provide a theoretical study based on Time Petri Net to analyse some important properties related to the devastating effect of the wormhole attack and its countermeasure on the CL-MAC operations. Also, we perform an experimental evaluation through the simulation using realistic scenarios in order to show the performance of the proposal in terms of energy saving, packets loss ratio and latency. The obtained results indicate the usefulness of the formal study provided in this work when applied in security context and confirm clearly a good performance of the proposed scheme against wormhole attack.

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