Hybrid Solution for Secured and Energy Aware Routing Path in Wireless Sensor Networks

Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and its applications have obtained considerable momentum due to its growing usage in different applications. However, security and power limits of WSNs are still important matters especially during routing since the early beginning of this research due to few of previous studies take into consideration security threats and energy consumption at the same time. Many existing approaches at most concentrate on cryptography to improve data security but this addresses only a part of the security problem without consideration for high energy consumption. This article presents a hybrid solution that depends on combination between network nodes trustworthiness and energy aware routing mechanism. This solution provides security and minimizes power consumption during routing. Performance and efficiency are measured through simulation results, analysis and comparison with well-known mechanisms.