A Review on Recent Trends in Secure and Energy Efficient Routing Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The development in technology has resulted in development of multifunctional, small, lower priced, lower power consuming and multifunctional sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The factors considered in design of the nodes are scalability, energy consumption, transmission range, environment etc. These nodes carry out activities like sensing, processing, information transmission and communication. The most of battery consumption is done by transmission of signals during communication process. So, saving energy is a foremost factor in the WSN. The routing scheme is extremely important for appropriate delivery of packets. This paper presents a review on some energy efficient routing protocols which are considering security measures as well, to improve security of nodes in WSN and targets to design approaches that needs less energy consumption during communication.

Classification of Secure Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…In this paper, we have investigated different secure routing protocol classification methods in WSNs [1,3], [11][12][13][14], which propose a general classification of secure routing protocols.…”

“…Under the review in [3], the main SRPs in WSNs are classified, according to their application features including flood-based SRPs, hierarchical-based SRPs, data-centric-based SRPs, location-based SRPs, and QoS-based SRPs.…”

“…Based on synthesizing ways of classifying routing protocols in WSNs of authors [1,3] and [11][12][13][14], we propose to classify SRPs in WSNs into nine categories as follows (see Fig. Next, we propose to use some typical security routing protocols and attack types, as well as security solutions corresponding to types of attacks on the layer in WSN [1,3], [11][12][13][14].…”

“…The basic architecture of a wireless sensor node as shown in Fig. 2, consists of the main components: a sensor, an analog-to-digital converter, a small microprocessor (including processor and memory), a locator, a radio transceiver (transmitter and receiver) and a small battery (power supply) to power for this wireless sensor node [3].…”

“…Accordingly, the remainder of this article is organized as follows. Part 2, summarizes and presents the classification of SRPs in WSNs by Christos Nakas, [1]; by Vivek Sharma and Devershi Pallavi Bhatt [3]; by Shio Kumar Singh, [11]; by Vikas Bhandary, [12]; by Yasir Arfat and Riaz Ahmed Shaikh [13]; and by Bharat Bhushan and G. Sahoo [14]. In Sections 3, 4, and 5, we propose an analysis of the types of protocol routing in WSNs and possible applications of these routing routes, and finally, Section 6 is the conclusion.…”