Study of attacks and countermeasures in wireless sensor networks

作者：Bin Tian^*; Xi Ouyang; Dong Li; Shoushan Luo; Yixian Yang; Yang Xin

来源：Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, 2012, 4(8): 311-320.

DOI：10.4156/AISS.vol4.issue8.37

• Attack
• Countermeasure
• Detection methods
• Possible futures
• Resource Constraint
• Security mechanism
• Wireless sensor network (WSNs)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in general and military scenarios. And these lead to a need for more security. Due to resource constraints in the sensor nodes, traditional security mechanisms with large overhead of computation and communication are infeasible in WSNs. WSNs are, therefore, susceptible vulnerable to attack and compromise. The intent of this paper is to investigate attacks and countermeasure in wireless sensor networks. We identify the attacks to sensor networks and summarize the defense and detection methods based on the stage of data acquisition. Then, we introduce the primary attacks in the state-of-the-art in wireless sensor networks. Various types of attacks are discussed and their countermeasures are presented. At finally, we discuss the existing solutions and possible future research.

• 出版日期2012
• 单位北京大学