scholarly journals Sensor Networks Attacks Classifications and Mitigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed S. Abu Daia ◽  
Rabie A. Ramadan ◽  
Magda B. Fayek
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Network Communication ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Security Services

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are exposed to many security attacks, and it can be easily compromised. One of the main reasons for these vulnerabilities is the deployment nature, where sensor nodes are deployed without physical guarding duty. That makes the network susceptible to physical attacks. The communication nature between sensor nodes is another reason, where intruders can easily send/receive information if they are located in the network communication range. In this paper, most of the possible WSN attacks are discussed, different security services expected in WSN are explained, and trust-based solutions proposed in the literature are listed. Moreover, the state-of-the-art of the attacks’ mitigation and avoidance techniques are presented. Besides, this paper is enriched with a new classification of the WSNs attacks regarding attacks’ characteristics. It will be beneficial to researchers in the field of WSNs security if they can distinguish between different attacks that have common characteristics.

Application of Computational Intelligence Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks the State of the Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 1580-1600
Author(s):  
Subhendu Kumar Pani
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Area Coverage ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Coverage Problem ◽  
Sensor Devices ◽  
Huge Variety

A wireless sensor network may contain hundreds or even tens of thousands of inexpensive sensor devices that can communicate with their neighbors within a limited radio range. By relaying information on each other, they transmit signals to a command post anywhere within the network. Worldwide market for wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing due to a huge variety of applications it offers. In this chapter, we discuss application of computational intelligence techniques in wireless sensor networks on the coverage problem in general and area coverage in particular. After providing different types of coverage encountered in WSN, we present a possible classification of coverage algorithms. Then we dwell on area coverage which is widely studied due to its importance. We provide a survey of literature on area coverage and give an account of its state-of-the art and research directions.

Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 2205-2230
Author(s):  
Mumtaz Qabulio ◽  
Yasir Arfat Malkani ◽  
Muhammad S. Memon ◽  
Ayaz Keerio
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Smart Transportation

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are comprised of large collections of small devices having low operating power, low memory space, and limited processing capabilities referred to as sensor nodes. The nodes in WSNs are capable of sensing, recording, and monitoring environmental conditions. Nowadays, a variety of WSNs applications can be found in many areas such as in healthcare, agriculture, industries, military, homes, offices, hospitals, smart transportation, and smart buildings. Though WSNs offer many useful applications, they suffer from many deployment issues. The security issue is one of them. The security of WSNs is considerable because of the use of unguided medium and their deployment in harsh, physically unprotected, and unattended environments. This chapter aims to discuss various security objectives and security attacks on WSNs and summarizes the discussed attacks according to their categories. The chapter also discusses different security protocols presented to prevent, detect, and recover the WSNs from various security attacks.

Application of Computational Intelligence Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks the State of the Art

2016 ◽  
pp. 441-461
Author(s):  
Subhendu Kumar Pani
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Area Coverage ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Coverage Problem ◽  
Sensor Devices ◽  
Huge Variety

A wireless sensor network may contain hundreds or even tens of thousands of inexpensive sensor devices that can communicate with their neighbors within a limited radio range. By relaying information on each other, they transmit signals to a command post anywhere within the network. Worldwide market for wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing due to a huge variety of applications it offers. In this chapter, we discuss application of computational intelligence techniques in wireless sensor networks on the coverage problem in general and area coverage in particular. After providing different types of coverage encountered in WSN, we present a possible classification of coverage algorithms. Then we dwell on area coverage which is widely studied due to its importance. We provide a survey of literature on area coverage and give an account of its state-of-the art and research directions.

scholarly journals A Combined Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaogang Qi ◽  
Xiaoke Liu ◽  
Lifang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Vehicle Tracking ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Localization Algorithm ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Anchor Nodes ◽  
Positioning Algorithm

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely used in various fields to monitor and track various targets by gathering information, such as vehicle tracking and environment and health monitoring. The information gathered by the sensor nodes becomes meaningful only if it is known where it was collected from. Considering that multilateral algorithm and MDS algorithm can locate the position of each node, we proposed a localization algorithm combining the merits of these two approaches, which is called MA-MDS, to reduce the accumulation of errors in the process of multilateral positioning algorithm and improve the nodes’ positioning accuracy in WSNs. It works in more robust fashion for noise sparse networks, even with less number of anchor nodes. In the MDS positioning phase of this algorithm, the Prussian Analysis algorithm is used to obtain more accurate coordinate transformation. Through extensive simulations and the repeatable experiments under diverse representative networks, it can be confirmed that the proposed algorithm is more accurate and more efficient than the state-of-the-art algorithms.

scholarly journals DESIGN ISSUES AND CLASSIFICATION OF WSNS OPERATING SYSTEMS

2013 ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
ANIL KUMAR SHARMA ◽  
SURENDRA KUMAR PATEL ◽  
GUPTESHWAR GUPTA
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Design Issues ◽  
Wireless Sensor Nodes ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Computational Resources

Wireless Sensor Networks is an emerging area of research. Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) face lot of problems that do not arise in other types of wireless networks and computing environments. Limited computational resources, power constraints, low reliability and higher density of sensor nodes (motes) are just some basic problems that have to be considered when designing or selecting a new operating system in order to evaluate the performance of wireless sensor nodes (motes). In this paper we focused on design issues, challenges and classification of operating systems for WSNs.

scholarly journals RELAY DEPLOYMENT ALGORITHMS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: A SURVEY

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Lanny Sitanayah
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Routing Protocols ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Relay Nodes ◽  
Alternate Routes ◽  
Relay Deployment

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are subject to failures. Even though reliable routing protocols for WSNs exist and are well-understood, the physical network topology must ensure that alternate routes with an acceptable length to the sinksare in fact available when failures occur. This requires a sensor network deployment to be planned with an objective of ensuring some measure of robustness in the topology, so that when failures do occur the protocols can continue to offer reliable delivery. To ensure that sensor nodes have sufficient paths, it may be necessary to add a number of additional relay nodes, which do not sense, but only forward data from other nodes. In this paper, we review a range of existing algorithms to deploy relay nodes for fault tolerance. We classify the state-of-the-art relay placement algorithms based on routing structures, connectivity requirements, deployment locations, and fault-tolerant requirements.

Real-Time Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Isabelle Augé-Blum ◽  
Fei Yang ◽  
Thomas Watteyne
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
The State ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Wireless Links

This chapter presents the state-of-the-art of real-time communication in the challenging topic of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In real-time communication, the duration between the event which initiates the sending of a message, and the instant this message is received must be smaller than a known delay. Because topologies are extremely dynamic and not known priori, this type of constraint is very hard to meet in WSNs. In this chapter, the different communication protocols proposed in the literatures, together with their respective advantages and drawbacks, are discussed. We focus on MAC and routing because they are key layers in real-time communication. As most existing protocols are not suitable under realistic constraints where sensor nodes and wireless links are unreliable, we give, at the end of this chapter, some insights about future trends in designing real-time protocols. We hope to give the reader an overview of recent research works in this complex topic which we consider to be essential in critical applications.

scholarly journals Security Attacks and Challenges of Wireless Sensor Network’s -a Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.32) ◽  
pp. 136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Shaik ◽  
Shaik Shakeel Ahamad
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Wireless Sensor Nodes ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Wired Networks ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Wireless Medium

Wireless sensor networks are becoming part of many of the research areas to address different issues related to technological and societal. So, The developments in wireless communication technology have made the deployment of  wireless sensor nodes connected through wireless medium, known as wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks have numerous applications in many fields like military , environmental monitoring , health , industry etc.. wireless sensor networks have more benefits over Wired networks .Though there are several advantages of wireless networks, they are prone to security issues. . Security became a major concern for wireless sensor networks because of the wider application. So ,this paper addresses the critical security issues of wireless sensor networks that may encounter in the different layers of the communication protocols like OSI.This paper presents a detailed review on the security issues and its challenges of the wireless sensor networks.  

Real-Time Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks

2012 ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Isabelle Augé-Blum ◽  
Fei Yang ◽  
Thomas Watteyne
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
The State ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Wireless Links

This chapter presents the state-of-the-art of real-time communication in the challenging topic of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In real-time communication, the duration between the event which initiates the sending of a message, and the instant this message is received must be smaller than a known delay. Because topologies are extremely dynamic and not known priori, this type of constraint is very hard to meet in WSNs. In this chapter, the different communication protocols proposed in the literatures, together with their respective advantages and drawbacks, are discussed. We focus on MAC and routing because they are key layers in real-time communication. As most existing protocols are not suitable under realistic constraints where sensor nodes and wireless links are unreliable, we give, at the end of this chapter, some insights about future trends in designing real-time protocols. We hope to give the reader an overview of recent research works in this complex topic which we consider to be essential in critical applications.

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