Muhammad Noman Riaz; Attaullah Buriro; Athar Mahboob

Classification of Attacks on Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

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Muhammad Noman Riaz ^1,* Attaullah Buriro ² Athar Mahboob ²

1. Department of Computer Science, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, 54000

2. Department of Computer Science, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan, 64200

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2018.06.02

Received: 13 May 2018 / Revised: 19 Jun. 2018 / Accepted: 5 Jul. 2018 / Published: 8 Nov. 2018

Index Terms

Wireless Sensor Networks, Security Goals, WSN Threat Model Security Attacks, Security Classification

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is one of the fastest rising emerging technologies that find widespread use in various applications comprising of military, health, agriculture, habitat etc. Seen as sensor network deployed at sites which can be considered as remote and hostile, the technology is seriously faced with challenges to the network and functional security at the cost of their inherent limitations in energy capacity and computing power. In this paper we have delved upon and summarized earlier research on security challenges poised to WSNs, classified the threats and then presented a generic WSN security model keeping in line with the intended security targets to be met. We have also tried to give a realistic theoretical analysis of our WSN security model against these threats.

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Muhammad Noman Riaz, Attaullah Buriro, Athar Mahboob, "Classification of Attacks on Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey", International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies(IJWMT), Vol.8, No.6, pp. 15-39, 2018. DOI: 10.5815/ijwmt.2018.06.02

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