Methods of Secure Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

            The Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) consider an emerging technology that have been greatly employed in critical situations like battlefields and commercial applications such as traffic surveillance, building habitat, smart homes and monitoring and many more scenarios. Security is one of the main challenges that face wireless sensor networks nowadays. While an unattended environment makes the deployment of sensor nodes in the networks more vulnerable to vary of potential attacks, the limitations of inherent power and memory for the sensor nodes makes conventional solutions of the security is 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.