WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK SECURITY ISSUES: A BRIEF REVIEW

Padmalaya Nayak, M.Shanthi

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are growing tremendously in many areas that ranges from environmental and habitant monitoring to health care, agriculture, military, defense, control and tracking applications. Despite of huge growth in applications, these networks are prone to security attacks. Again, deployment of these networks in a hostile and unattended environment along with the limited resources make the design/deployment issue more critical than any other networks. Recently, many research publications discuss on the security issues and challenge involved in WSN why because the limited source of nodes can’t provide a desired level of security by itself. Even though many studies discuss many potential issues of WSN security, most of these are discussed in isolation of each other. Keeping this in mind, trying to provide a clear picture of this vast area, attempt has been made to present the major security issues that consider the probable attacks and how it can be detected prior to the attack and various detection mechanisms are discussed in this paper. A brief taxonomy of WSN constraints and different types of attacks and detection mechanisms are presented this paper.

Keywords: WSN, WSN Attacks, IDS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0517003