IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS USING REINVENTED FSMAC PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Sujata S.Agrawal, K.D.Kulat, M.B.Daigavane

Abstract: Now-a-days Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been used in a various applications including military and security monitoring, industrial control, health monitoring, home automation, intelligent agriculture and environmental sensing. The shared and easy to access medium is undoubtedly the biggest advantage of wireless networks. The shared nature of the medium in wireless Sensor Networks makes it easy for an attacker to launch a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. These attacks are happening to stop the legitimate node from accessing resources. There are many occasions where the attack can be much easier for an attacker. For example, in carrier sensing based networks (a) the transmissions at the sender are deferred because the medium is sensed to be busy, and/or (b) the reception at the receiver is interfered with due to the jamming signals. Both these effects degrade the wireless network performance significantly. As a result causes degradation in Quality-of-Service (QoS) of a sensor network. In proposed paper, Fuzzy Logic Secure Media Access Control (FSMAC) Protocol is reinvented using new intrusion detection parameter. These two parameters are Number of time channel sensed free and variation in Channel sensed period. Performance characteristics are measured in terms of successful data transmission rate and throughput of the network.

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Denial-of-Service Attack, Quality of Service, Reinvented FSMAC Protocol

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0210091