Secure and Energy-Efficient Disjoint Multipath Routing for WSNs

Abstract

Abstract-Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology have boosted the deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Limited by energy storage capability of sensor nodes, it is crucial to jointly consider security and energy efficiency in data collection of WSNs. Disjoint multi-path routing scheme with secret sharing is widely recognized as one of the effective routing strategies to ensure the safety of information. This kind of scheme transforms each packet into several shares to enhance the security of transmission. However, in many-to-one WSNs, shares have a high probability to traverse through the same link and to be intercepted by adversaries. In this paper, we formulate secret sharing based multi-path routing problem as an optimization problem. Our objective aims at maximizing both network security and lifetime, subject to the energy constraints. To this end, a three-phase disjoint routing scheme, called Security and Energy-efficient Disjoint Route (SEDR), is proposed. Based on secret sharing algorithm, the SEDR scheme dispersively and randomly delivers shares all over the network in the first two phases, and then transmits these shares to the sink node. Both theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme has significant improvement in network security under both scenarios of single and multiple black holes without reducing the network lifetime.

Energy-efficient and reliable data collection in wireless sensor networks

“…This approach increased security compared to H-SPREAD with the help of random dispersion. Network lifetime and security were jointly considered in [10] with a combination of randomized and deterministic multipath routing; however, the approach was very specific to one particular type of deployment strategy, i.e. nodes (circular) and the BS (center of the network area) deployment.…”

“…With advances in technology, today's sensor nodes can gather and process more data, leading to the creation of new applications in recent years. To achieve cost effectiveness, sensor nodes are not typically equipped with tamper-proof facilities [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Due to their hostile and unattended environment, there is a very high chance of nodes being compromised in a WSN.…”

SFAD2H: Selective Forwarding or Dropping Attack Detection with 2-Hop Acknowledgment Support in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…The idea is either sending multiple copies of the same data through different paths to destination (Karlof and Wagner, 2003;Bhuse et al, 2005;Kefayati et al, 2006;Mavropodi et al, 2007;Pavithra and Reddy, 2015) or splitting the data into N shares and sending the N shares through different paths to destination (Shu et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2012;Li et al, 2014). Destination needs to collect and merge at least M out of N shares to make meaningful data.…”

Energy Efficient Auto Protecting Nodes in Secured Data Transmission in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

“…Paper [2] by Anfeng et al proposed a technique to formulate the secret-sharing-based multipath routing problem as an optimization problem. The objective is to maximizing both network security and lifetime subject to the energy constraints [4][5] [6][7] [8].…”