A Survey of Attacks, Security Mechanisms and Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) is an emerging technology and have great potential to be employed in critical situations like battlefields and commercial applications such as building, traffic surveillance, habitat monitoring and smart homes and many more scenarios. One of the major challenges wirele...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2009-09
Main Authors: Padmavathi, G, Shanmugapriya, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Battlefields
Commercial buildings
Ecological monitoring
New technology
Nodes
Remote sensors
Sensors
Smart buildings
Traffic surveillance
Wireless communications
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) is an emerging technology and have great potential to be employed in critical situations like battlefields and commercial applications such as building, traffic surveillance, habitat monitoring and smart homes and many more scenarios. One of the major challenges wireless sensor networks face today is security. While the deployment of sensor nodes in an unattended environment makes the networks vulnerable to a variety of potential attacks, the inherent power and memory limitations of sensor nodes makes conventional security solutions unfeasible. The sensing technology combined with processing power and wireless communication makes it profitable for being exploited in great quantity in future. The wireless communication technology also acquires various types of security threats. This paper discusses a wide variety of attacks in WSN and their classification mechanisms and different securities available to handle them including the challenges faced.
ISSN:2331-8422