Security in Underwater Sensor Network

Author

Cong, Yanping ; Yang, Guang ; Wei, Zhiqiang ; Zhou, Wei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

12-14 April 2010

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

168

Abstract

Underwater wireless sensor network is a novel type of underwater networked system. Due to the characteristics of UWSN and underwater channel, UWSN are vulnerable to malicious attacks. The existing security solutions proposed for WSN cannot be used directly in UWSN. Moreover, most of these solutions are layer wise. In this paper, we studied the threat, attack, and security issues of UWSN. Subsequently, we argue that layered security schemes cannot protect UWSN against blended attacks. Additionally, we presented a novel preliminary conceive, which is a cross-layer, adaptive, selective security scheme.

Keywords

telecommunication security; underwater acoustic communication; wireless sensor networks; UWSN security; adaptive security scheme; cross-layer security scheme; selective security scheme; underwater channel; underwater wireless sensor network security; Communication system security; Computer crime; Cryptography; Data security; Jamming; Physical layer; Protection; Sensor systems; Underwater communication; Wireless sensor networks; cross-layer security; underwater sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6327-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6328-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMC.2010.18

Filename

5471493