2013/08/03 by Jaydip Sen, Sen, Jaydip · 10 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Adversary #Cognitive radio #Computer network #Computer science #Computer security #Correctness #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Key distribution in wireless sensor networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Security in Wireless Sensor Networks #Software deployment #Telecommunications #Wireless #Wireless Communication Security Techniques #Wireless network #Wireless sensor network #cs.CR #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.0682
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 31 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. The paper is accepted for publication in Journal of Information and Network Security, Vol 1, Issue 1, August 2013. This paper is an extended version of author's already existing paper in arXiv archive with identifier arXiv:1302.2253. There are some text overlap with this current paper with the previous version arXiv:1302.2253
arxiv created 2013/08/03 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/03 · arxiv updated 2013/08/13 · openalex created_date 2019/07/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/08
Wireless sensor networks have emerged as an important and new area in wireless and mobile computing research because of their numerous potential applications that range from indoor deployment scenarios in home and office to outdoor deployment in adversary's territory in tactical battleground. Since in many WSN applications, lives and livelihoods may depend on the timeliness and correctness of sensor data obtained from dispersed sensor nodes, these networks must be secured to prevent any possible attacks that may be launched on them. Security is, therefore, an important issue in WSNs. However, this issue becomes even more critical in cognitive wireless sensor networks, a type of WSN in which the sensor nodes have the capabilities of changing their transmission and reception parameters according to the radio environment under which they operate in order to achieve reliable and efficient communication and optimum utilization of the network resources. This survey paper presents a comprehensive discussion on various security issues in CWSNs by identifying numerous security threats in these networks and defense mechanisms to counter these vulnerabilities. Various types of attacks on CWSNs are categorized under different classes based on their natures and tragets, and corresponding to each attack class, appropriate security mechanisms are presented. The paper also identifies some open problems in this emerging area of wireless networking.