A Pragmatic Analysis on Diversified Aspects of Security and Integrity in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless networks are susceptible and prone to assorted attacks at different layers from multiple sources and therefore it is required to understand the mechanism as well as taxonomy of attacks. By this perspective, there is need to investigate the network level attacks, their impact and remedial measures so that the overall scenario can be made secured. The nodes in wireless environment are affected adversely by number of attacks focusing of the resources used by the nodes participating in the communication. These network nodes are generally associated with the assorted functional aspects including battery or energy, power, log of neighboring nodes, cache and number of services. In a network attack, the malicious node or packet attempts to temporarily or permanently halt these parameters so that the authentic and realistic communication can be damaged. A number of algorithmic solutions work against assorted attacks but there is huge scope of research in this segment. This manuscript underlines the attacks on wireless networks with their related dimensions so that the effectual algorithm can be developed for overall security and integrity.