Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their wide range of potential applications ranging from commercial to critical military and health care applications. For most of these applications, security is an important requirement. However, securi...

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Main Authors: Mohamad Nazim, Jambli, Sinarwati, Mohamad Suhaili, Nurul Sahida, Mansor
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Published: IEEE 2013
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Sinarwati, Mohamad Suhaili
Nurul Sahida, Mansor
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description In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their wide range of potential applications ranging from commercial to critical military and health care applications. For most of these applications, security is an important requirement. However, security mechanisms in WSNs differ from traditional ad-hoc networks due to their energy and resource constraints. Due to these constraints, the sensor nodes are vulnerable to security threats because the traditional security measures are not enough to protect these nodes during information dissemination in WSNs. Thus, in this paper we have studied TinySec security measures, Authentication-only (TinySec-Auth) and Authentication Encryption (TinySec-AE) in order to evaluate the suitability of these security measures for WSN applications. We have evaluated these TinySec mechanisms in terms of packet transmission time, average number of packet received and energy consumption. The simulation results show that TinySec-AE consumed more energy and required more time to transmit packet in comparing to TinySec-Auth due to higher computational time and longer packet size for extra encryption mechanism.
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spelling unimas-163732017-05-22T08:15:50Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16373/ Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks Mohamad Nazim, Jambli Sinarwati, Mohamad Suhaili Nurul Sahida, Mansor T Technology (General) In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their wide range of potential applications ranging from commercial to critical military and health care applications. For most of these applications, security is an important requirement. However, security mechanisms in WSNs differ from traditional ad-hoc networks due to their energy and resource constraints. Due to these constraints, the sensor nodes are vulnerable to security threats because the traditional security measures are not enough to protect these nodes during information dissemination in WSNs. Thus, in this paper we have studied TinySec security measures, Authentication-only (TinySec-Auth) and Authentication Encryption (TinySec-AE) in order to evaluate the suitability of these security measures for WSN applications. We have evaluated these TinySec mechanisms in terms of packet transmission time, average number of packet received and energy consumption. The simulation results show that TinySec-AE consumed more energy and required more time to transmit packet in comparing to TinySec-Auth due to higher computational time and longer packet size for extra encryption mechanism. IEEE 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16373/1/Evaluation%20of%20Security%20Mechanisms%20for%20Information%20Dissemination%20%28abstract%29.pdf Mohamad Nazim, Jambli and Sinarwati, Mohamad Suhaili and Nurul Sahida, Mansor (2013) Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks. 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation (AIMS), 2013. ISSN ISBN: 978-1-4799-3251-1 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6959954/ DOI: 10.1109/AIMS.2013.76
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Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_fullStr Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_short Evaluation of Security Mechanisms for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
title_sort evaluation of security mechanisms for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks
topic T Technology (General)
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