Security for wireless sensor networks: A review

Author

Healy, Michael ; Newe, Thomas ; Lewis, Elfed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Limerick, Limerick

fYear

2009

fDate

17-19 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

85

Abstract

Due to the sensitive nature of the data gathered by many wireless sensor networks (WSNs) it is becoming critical that this data be protected. However, due to the constrained nature of the resources available on sensor nodes, traditional wireless networking security solutions are not viable due to their processing requirements, power consumption, speed and communications overhead. We review the threats and attacks faced by WSNs and then the current state of the art of dedicated WSN security protocols are examined and compared, focusing on their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Keywords

protocols; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; WSN security protocols; data protection; sensor nodes; wireless networking security; wireless sensor networks security; Application software; Communication system security; Computer security; Data security; Energy resources; Optical fiber sensors; Optical sensors; Synthetic aperture sonar; USA Councils; Wireless sensor networks; attacks; performance; security; sensor nodes; threats; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors Applications Symposium, 2009. SAS 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2786-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2787-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAS.2009.4801782

Filename

4801782