Intrusion Detection forWireless Sensor Networks

A WSN consists of a large set of tiny sensor nodes. Sensor nodes can perform
sensing, data processing, and communicating but with limited power,
computational capacities, small memory size, and low bandwidth. Unlike
MANETs, the senor nodes in WSNs are usually static after deployment, and
communicate mainly through broadcast instead of point-to-point communication.
Sensor networks have been used in a variety of domains, such as
military sensing in a battlefield, perimeter defense in critical area such as
airport, intrusion detection for traditional communication network, disasters
monitoring, and home healthcare. Obviously, some applications are
security-critical, which attract many researchers’ attention to secure a sensor
network. Some security protocols or mechanisms have been designed
for sensor network. For example, SPINS, a set of protocols, provides secure
data confidentiality, two-party data authentication, and data freshness and
authenticated broadcast for sensor network.15 LEAP, a localized encryption
and authentication protocol, is designed to support in-network processing
based on the different security requirements for different types of message
exchange. INSENS is an intrusion-tolerant routing protocol for WSNs.17
A lightweight security protocol relying solely on broadcasts of end-to-end
encrypted packets. However, in a sensor network,
as a complicated system, there are always some vulnerabilities to be
attacked.

Reference:Wireless Ad hoc Networking by Shih-Lin Wu & Yu-Chee Tseng


Author:Chang Guang University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
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