A Review of Secure Routing Approaches for Current and Next-Generation Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Abstract

Multimedia applications are gradually becoming an essential—and flourishing—part of our daily lives. The area of wireless sensor networks is not an exception to this trend, as multimedia data have attracted the attention of researchers. Their importance is due to the shift of focus from traditional scalar sensors to sensors equipped with multimedia devices, as well as to the next-generation wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). The highly sensitive nature of multimedia traffic makes data routing with security even more important in WMSNs. This paper discusses the challenges of secure routing in WMSNs, where most of the proposed works in the literature deal with routing and security as individual issues. A critical and comprehensive review of state-of-the-art routing and security approaches for WMSNs is presented, followed by the discussion of their limitations and features. It is hoped that this extensive review and discussion ultimately identifies the future research directions and the open challenges of secure routing approaches in WMSNs.

Cryptography in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: A Survey and Research Directions

“…Secure protocols for data transmission and key management are desired for many scenarios, and security mechanisms for routing have also been proposed [23,88]. Moreover, some works have proposed secure protocols in the Transport [24] and MAC [25] layers.…”

Survey of QoS Routing Protocols in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

“…In addition, there is a tradeoff between energy-efficiency and multimedia QoS guarantee. Hence, it is important to balance energy efficiency and QoS to develop energy-efficient routing techniques in WMSNs [16,17,118,121,122]. Additionally, efficient data compression techniques with low complexity are required to limit energy and bandwidth consumption.…”

“…It appears to be the most practical approach for guaranteeing QoS in WMSNs. Although little work is performed, the cross-layer approach provides a potential direction for research in WMSNs [16,17,120,121]. To guarantee QoS new protocols can be designed to integrate a minimum of two layers, for example, a combination of the network layer and the transport layer, a combination of the network layer and the data link layer, and a combination of the data link layer and the physical layer as shown in Figure 4(c).…”

“…Figure 5 shows a simple scenario where source node is mobile and path is explored with TPGF [19]. Due to source mobility, network topology and routing paths are changed ( Figures 5(b) sybil, spoofed, altered, and selective forwarding attacks [17]. Due to the unreliable wireless channels and unsupervised feature of WMSNs, a malicious adversary may readily launch attacks to compromise the security of the sensor node or network.…”

“…Several surveys have been conducted on sensor networks and routing protocols [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Current survey is different from previous surveys based on two aspects.…”