A Security Architecture for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper proposes a lightweight security architecture tailored for self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks, addressing prevalent security threats while maintaining efficiency for practical deployment.

Contribution

It introduces a novel security architecture specifically designed for mobile wireless sensor networks, enhancing protection against attacks with minimal resource overhead.

Findings

Provides effective attack prevention mechanisms

Maintains lightweight security suitable for mobile sensor networks

Balances security with network performance

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks increasingly become viable solutions to many challenging problems and will successively be deployed in many areas in the future. However, deploying new technology without security in mind has often proved to be unreasonably dangerous. We propose a security architecture for self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks that prevents many attacks these networks are exposed to. Furthermore, it limits the security impact of some attacks that cannot be prevented. We analyse our security architecure and show that it provides the desired security aspects while still being a lightweight solution and thus being applicable for self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks.