Security Service for Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gradually adopted in the industrial world due to their advantages over wired networks. In addition to saving cabling costs, WSNs widen the realm of environments feasible for monitoring. They thus add sensing and acting capabilities to objects in the physical world and allow for communication among these objects or with services in the future Internet. However, the acceptance of WSNs by theindustrial automation community is impeded by open issues, such as security guarantees. To examine both of these perspectives, we select and survey relevant WSN technologies dedicated to industrial automation. We determine to carry out a threat analysis, which act as basis of our evaluation of the current state-of-the-art. According to the results of this evaluation, we identify and discuss some research issues.