Secure energy efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor network

• Main Authors: Das Ayan Kumar, Chaki Rituparna, Dey Kashi Nath
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2016-03-01
• Series: Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences
• Subjects: wireless sensor network; sensors; hash chain; machine authentication code; cluster; cluster head; security
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2016-0001

The ease of deployment of economic sensor networks has always been a boon to disaster management applications. However, their vulnerability to a number of security threats makes communication a challenging task. This paper proposes a new routing technique to prevent from both external threats and internal threats like hello flooding, eavesdropping and wormhole attack. In this approach one way hash chain is used to reduce the energy drainage. Level based event driven clustering also helps to save energy. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme extends network lifetime even when the cluster based wireless sensor network is under attack.