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Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Cryptography and Security 2013-01-23 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have attracted a lot of interest over the last decade in wireless and mobile computing research community. Applications of these networks are numerous and growing, which range from indoor deployment scenarios in the home and office to outdoor deployment in adversary's territory in a tactical battleground. However, due to distributed nature and their deployment in remote areas, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect their performance. This chapter provides a comprehensive discussion on the state of the art in security technologies for wireless sensor networks. It identifies various possible attacks at different layers of the communication protocol stack in a typical sensor network and their possible countermeasures. A brief discussion on the future direction of research in WSN security is also included.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5065,
  title  = {Security in Wireless Sensor Networks},
  author = {Jaydip Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5065},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

51 pages. 5 Figures and 7 Tables. Book Chapter in the book "Wireless Sensor Networks: Current Status and Future Trends", A.S.K. Pathan et al. (eds.), CRC Press USA, November 2012; This book chapter is an extended version of author's earlier arXiv submission: arXiv:1011.1529 and also has substantial text overlap with arXiv:1101.2759

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