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

By Ganapathi Padmavathi, D. Shanmugapriya. arXiv.org, 2009

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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.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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WSN-DS: A Dataset for Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless Sensor Networks (2016, background): “As mentioned earlier, DoS is a common attack that could have a severe impact on WSN’s functionalities and services [20].”
A Survey of Intrusion Detection Systems in Wireless Sensor Networks (2014, background): “Readers who are interested more on security attacks against WSNs, may refer to [4], [5] and [6] for further details.”
Physical-Layer Security of 5G Wireless Networks for IoT: Challenges and Opportunities (2019, background): “eavesdropping can act effectively against privacy protection [25].”
Security of the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures (2019, background): “In the literature, there is a variety of classifications for attacks towards the WSNs [14], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67].”
Cyber Security and the Internet of Things: Vulnerabilities, Threats, Intruders and Attacks (2015, background): “Such exposure raises the possibility that an attacker might capture the device, extract cryptographic secrets, modify their programming, or replace them with malicious device under the control of the attacker [33].”
A Comprehensive Study of Security of Internet-of-Things (2017, background): “A malicious node can also be used by the attacker to inject false data into the system or prevent delivery of true messages [46].”