SCMRP: Secure cluster based multipath routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Abstract-WSNs are multihop networks, which depend on the intermediate nodes to relay the data packet to the destination. These nodes are equipped with lesser memory, limited battery power, little computation capability, small range of communication and need a secured and efficient routing path to forward the incoming packet. In this paper, we propose a secure cluster based multipath routing protocol (SCMRP). Researchers have proposed clustered sensor networks to increase the efficiency (i.e. increase system throughput, save energy and decrease system delay by data aggregation) and multipath sensor networks to increase the resilience and reliability of the network. The SCMRP is the combination of these two sensor networks; therefore, it provides efficiency as well as reliability and the proper use of cryptographic algorithm provides sufficient security to the sensor network. SCMRP provides security against various attacks like altering the routing information, selective forwarding attack, sinkhole attack, wormhole attack, Sybil attack etc. Further, we have provided a brief analysis to various issues related to key management, orphan nodes, security and energy efficiency.

Survey of secure multipath routing protocols for WSNs

“…Security is also marked equally to efficiency, such as the lifetime of the network (Kumar and Jena, 2010). Apart from the related issues regarding security, efficiency is another imperative issue that should be considered in order to establish the performance of secure multipath routing protocols in sensor networks.…”

“…Since the routing tables of sensor nodes are computed in sink nodes, the computation cost to distribute the routing tables is increased, especially in large-scale sensor networks. Moreover, the use of a global key for secure neighbor detection affects the whole network performance once the global key is compromised (Kumar and Jena, 2010).…”

“…The SCMRP (Secure Cluster based Multipath Routing Protocol) proposes clustered sensor networks and multipath sensor networks, which aim to increase the network efficiency and to increase the resilience and reliability of the network respectively (Kumar and Jena, 2010). In order to provide sufficient security to the sensor network, SCMRP adopts the proper use of cryptographic algorithms.…”

Secure and efficient data collection in wireless image sensor network based on ellipse batch dispersive routing

“…In recent years, multiple node-disjoint path routing takes security into account [10][11][12][13][26][27][28][29][30]. Secure cluster based multipath routing protocol proposed a proactive, hierarchical multipath secure routing protocol.…”

“…Secure cluster based multipath routing protocol proposed a proactive, hierarchical multipath secure routing protocol. It implements the security of routing by pairwise key distribution [26]. G. SM et al proposed a secure energyefficient node-disjoint multipath routing protocol, which transmits the data packets in a secure manner by using the MD5 hash function and RSA algorithm [28].…”