Open AccessSECURITY ISSUES IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS – AN OVERVIEW
Author(s) -
; Pankaj
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
smart moves journal ijoscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-4600
DOI - 10.24113/ijoscience.v2i8.105
Subject(s) - wireless sensor network , computer science , node (physics) , physical security , computer security , wireless , key distribution in wireless sensor networks , computer network , wireless network , sensor node , telecommunications , engineering , structural engineering
A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a spatially distributed autonomous sensor to monitor and cooperatively report information about physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, etc. through the network to a server machine. WSNs are typically enforced for assembling data from insecure surroundings. Nearly all security protocols for WSN believe that the unwelcome person is able to do entirely management over a detector node by manner of direct physical access. The looks of detector networks together of the most technology within the future has display numerous challenges to researchers. The challenges thrown by WSNs are distinctive given their delicate design and scant resources. Even supposing security for wireless networks has been a wide researched space for several decades, security for WSNs continues to be a serious roadblock for his or her potency and performance.