Wireless Sensor Network based: Design Principles & measuring performance of IDS

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have many potential applications for both civil and military tasks. However, sensor networks are susceptible to many types of attacks because, deployed in open and unprotected environment. For these cases, it is necessary to use some mechanism of intrusion detection. Besides preventing the intruder from causing damages to the network, the intrusion detection system (IDS) can acquire information related to the attack techniques, helping in the development of prevention systems. So it is necessary to use effective mechanisms to protect sensor networks against many types of attacks. Intrusion detection system is one of the major and efficient defensive method against attacks on wireless sensor network. Because of different characteristics of sensor networks, security solutions have to be designed with limited usage of computation and resources. In this paper different Intrusion detection systems are analyzed basis on design and performance in real time wireless sensor network environment.

Enhancing Energy Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Network through the Design of Energy Efficient Routing Protocol

“…The structure of a typical WSN node [11] consists of four main components: a sensing element, normally used for sensing a physically measureable parameter; an Analogto-Digital Converter (ADC), used for converting analog signals to some digital formats; a processing unit, providing simple/basic data processing and computation capabilities; and a power unit, responsible for sensor node's operation life span. It is a known fact that WSN is a resource constrained network in which energy efficiency is always the main issue since the operation of WSN depends heavily on the life span of the sensor nodes' battery [12]. The most energy consuming operation in WSN is the data packet routing activity.…”