Classification of Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper reviews security challenges in wireless sensor networks, classifies various attacks across network layers, and discusses cryptographic solutions to enhance security in civilian and military applications.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of attacks in WSNs and discusses security challenges at each OSI layer, highlighting cryptography's role.

Findings

Different attack types are identified and classified.

Security challenges vary across network layers.

Cryptography is essential for attack mitigation.

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), security has a vital importance. Recently, there was a huge interest to propose security solutions in WSNs because of their applications in both civilian and military domains. Adversaries can launch different types of attacks, and cryptography is used to countering these attacks. This paper presents challenges of security and a classification of the different possible attacks in WSNs. The problems of security in each layer of the network's OSI model are discussed.