Secure Multipath Routing Scheme using Key Pre-Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel secure multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks that utilizes key pre-distribution to ensure route security and resilience against attacks.

Contribution

It presents the first secure multipath routing protocol specifically designed for WSNs, combining key pre-distribution with optimal neighbor selection for enhanced security.

Findings

Effective in maintaining multiple secure paths

Mathematical analysis confirms security robustness

Improves attack resistance in WSN routing

Abstract

Multipath routing in WSN has been a long wish in security scenario where nodes on next-hop may be targeted to compromise. Many proposals of Multipath routing has been proposed in ADHOC Networks but under constrained from keying environment most seems ignorant. In WSN where crucial data is reported by nodes in deployment area to their securely located Sink, route security has to be guaranteed. Under dynamic load and selective attacks, availability of multiple secure paths is a boon and increases the attacker efforts by many folds. We propose to build a subset of neighbors as our front towards destination node. We also identified forwarders for query by base station. The front is optimally calculated to maintain the security credential and avail multiple paths. According to our knowledge ours is first secure multipath routing protocol for WSN. We established effectiveness of our proposal with mathematical analysis