On the development of adaptive and self-dependent secure routing for wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Jamal N. Al-Karaki;Mohammad Alrousan;Samer Khasawaneh

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hashemite University, Zarka, Jordan;Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan;The Hashemite University, Zarka, Jordan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), sensors may be deployed in hostile environments or in some security-sensitive applications exposing them to tampering and to many several security issues. As such, developing secure routing protocols for sensor networks is a crucial issue. The heart of security protocols is the key distribution algorithm. Many key distribution protocols were proposed in WSNs, but most of these protocols lack the adaptivity to network conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical and secure routing protocol with innovative key distribution for WSNs. The proposed protocol offers a tradeoff between the desired degree of security and energy consumption. When compared to other protocols (e.g., Trusted BS and a pair wise key pre-distribution), our protocol shows enhanced performance with low overhead.