Security perspective of wireless sensor networks = Prospectiva de seguridad de las redes de sensores inalámbricos Articles uri icon

publication date

  • January 2021

start page

  • 189

end page

  • 201

issue

  • 3

volume

  • 21

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1657-4583

abstract

  • In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), nodes are vulnerable to security attacks because they are installed in a harsh environment with limited power and memory, low processing power, and medium broadcast transmission.Therefore, identifying threats, challenges, and solutions of security and privacy is a talkingtopic today. This article analyzes the research work that has been carried out on the security mechanisms for the protection of WSN against threats and attacks, as well as the trends that emerge in other countries combined with future research lines. From the methodological point of view, this analysis is shown through the visualization and study of works indexed in databases such as IEEE, ACM, Scopus,and Springer, with a range of 7 years as an observation window, from 2013 to 2019. A total of 4,728 publications were obtained, with a high rate of collaborationbetween China and India. The research raised developments, such as advances in security principles and defense mechanisms, which have led to the design of countermeasures in intrusion detection. Finally, the results show the interest of the scientific andbusiness community in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to optimize performance measurements.

subjects

  • Computer Science
  • Telecommunications

keywords

  • wireless sensor networks; wsn attacks; security mechanisms; artificial intelligence; intrusion detection; computational resources; countermeasures; zigbee protocol; machine learning; supervised techniques; unsupervised techniques; anomaly detection; clustering algorithms; vosviewer; security prospective