Clustered Hierarchy in Sensor Networks: Performance and Security

TL;DR

This paper reviews energy-efficient and security-enhancing techniques for clustered sensor networks, proposing modifications to improve performance and applying them to existing security protocols.

Contribution

It introduces modifications to existing energy and security techniques in clustered sensor networks to enhance efficiency and security performance.

Findings

Improved energy savings in sensor networks

Enhanced security levels through modified protocols

Higher network performance achieved

Abstract

Many papers have been proposed in order to increase the wireless sensor networks performance; This kind of network has limited resources, where the energy in each sensor came from a small battery that sometime is hard to be replaced or recharged. Transmission energy is the most concern part where the higher energy consumption takes place. Clustered hierarchy has been proposed in many papers; in most cases, it provides the network with better performance than other protocols. In our paper, first we discuss some of techniques, relates to this protocol, that have been proposed for energy efficiency; some of them were proposed to provide the network with more security level. Our proposal then suggests some modifications to some of these techniques to provide the network with more energy saving that should lead to high performance; also we apply our technique on an existing one that proposed to increase the security level of cluster sensor networks.