Title
Cost-Effective Encryption-Based Autonomous Routing Protocol for Efficient and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks.
Abstract
The deployment of intelligent remote surveillance systems depends on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) composed of various miniature resource-constrained wireless sensor nodes. The development of routing protocols for WSNs is a major challenge because of their severe resource constraints, ad hoc topology and dynamic nature. Among those proposed routing protocols, the biology-inspired self-organized secure autonomous routing protocol (BIOSARP) involves an artificial immune system (AIS) that requires a certain amount of time to build up knowledge of neighboring nodes. The AIS algorithm uses this knowledge to distinguish between self and non-self neighboring nodes. The knowledge-building phase is a critical period in the WSN lifespan and requires active security measures. This paper proposes an enhanced BIOSARP (E-BIOSARP) that incorporates a random key encryption mechanism in a cost-effective manner to provide active security measures in WSNs. A detailed description of E-BIOSARP is presented, followed by an extensive security and performance analysis to demonstrate its efficiency. A scenario with E-BIOSARP is implemented in network simulator 2 (ns-2) and is populated with malicious nodes for analysis. Furthermore, E-BIOSARP is compared with state-of-the-art secure routing protocols in terms of processing time, delivery ratio, energy consumption, and packet overhead. The findings show that the proposed mechanism can efficiently protect WSNs from selective forwarding, brute-force or exhaustive key search, spoofing, eavesdropping, replaying or altering of routing information, cloning, acknowledgment spoofing, HELLO flood attacks, and Sybil attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16040460
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
autonomous,communication,cost-effective,cryptography,efficient,key management,routing protocol,secure,wireless sensor networks
Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Static routing,Computer network,Interior gateway protocol,Wireless Routing Protocol,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Engineering,Routing protocol,Zone Routing Protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
4.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
27
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kashif Saleem121421.58
Abdelouahid Derhab227732.68
Mehmet A. Orgun31366155.15
Jalal Al-Muhtadi476464.68
JOEL J. P. C. RODRIGUES53484341.72
Mohammed Sayim Khalil6122.58
Adel Ali Ahmed7957.77