Overview of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Security
Security mechanisms such as Cryptography, Firewalls, Secure Routing Protocol and Secure Data Aggregation of WSN are explored and reported using the Raspberry Pi 3 model B, and tools embedded into Kali Linux are reported.
Abstract
Our civilization has entered an era of big data networking. Massive amounts of data is being converted into bits for transmitting over the Internet and shared all over the world every second. The concept of “smart” devices has conquered preconceived notions of daily routines. Smartphones and wearable device technologies have made humans to be continuously interconnected, making distance a factor of no limitation. “Smart” systems are based on a single concept called the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a web of wirelessly networked devices embedded with electronic components and sensors that monitors physical and environmental conditions and acquires data to be shared with other systems. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a combination of hardware and software network that uses a system of sensors to detect physical phenomena. WSN is being widely used in industrial and consumer applications. Privacy is a key factor of WSN, it is imperative to secure data that is used, transmitted, or stored. Wireless communication technologies, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, etc., exposes users to a plethora of potential security flaws. In this paper, security mechanisms such as Cryptography, Firewalls, Secure Routing Protocol and Secure Data Aggregation of WSN using the Raspberry Pi 3 model B, and tools embedded into Kali Linux is explored and reported .