A Security Architecture for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract. Wireless sensor networks increasingly become viable solutions to many challenging problems and will successively be deployed in many areas in the future. However, deploying new technology without security in mind has often proved to be unreasonably dangerous. We propose a security architecture for self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks that prevents many attacks these networks are exposed to. Furthermore, it limits the security impact of some attacks that cannot be prevented. We analyse our security architecure and show that it provides the desired security aspects while still being a lightweight solution and thus being applicable for self-organizing mobile wireless sensor networks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ESAS
• Authors: Stefan Schmidt, Holger Krahn, Stefan Fischer, Dietmar Wätjen
• Keywords: ESAS 2004, Mobile Wireless Sensor, Security, Wireless Sensor Networks