A Protected Routing protocol for Detecting Failure Reports in Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have been gaining interest as a raised area that changes how we interact with the physical world. Applications in medicine, inventory management, environmental observing, and the like can benefit from low-power wireless nodes that communicate data collected via a variety of sensors. Individual sensor nodes are subject to cooperated security because they may be deployed in hostile environments and each sensor node communicates wirelessly. A challenger can inject false reports into the networks via compromised nodes. If these kinds of attacks occur simultaneously in a network with existing methods cannot defend against them satisfactorily. We thus propose a secure routing method for identifying false report injections in wireless sensor networks. The recommended method uses ACK messages for detecting reports and is based on a statistical en-route filtering (SEF) scheme for identifying false reports. Simulation results show that the recommended method reduces energy consumption by up to 25% and provide greater network security.