Swarm based defense techniques for certain attacks in ieee802154 based wireless sensor networks

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Networks consists of small inexpensive batterypowered newlinewireless sensors which self configure and collaborate with each other to newlinesupport cost effective sensing in situations where human observation or wired newlinesystems deployment can be inefficient expensive dangerous or otherwise newlineuntenable Unfortunately the desirable nature of a WSN introduces many security newlinechallenges Wireless Sensor Networks are often deployed in an open environment newlinein specific applications such as battlefield Overall in a typical WSN sensor nodes newlinewith severe energy and other resources constraints are responsible for data newlinecollection data processing localization time synchronization data forwarding newlineupstream and downstream while facing numerous security threats newline