Chapter 18: Wireless Sensor Network Security: The Internet of Things

Harsh Kupwade Patil1, and Thomas M. Chen2     1Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States     2Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are interconnected sensor nodes that communicate wirelessly to collect data about the surrounding environment. Nodes are generally low power and distributed in an ad hoc, decentralized fashion. Although WSNs have gained a lot of popularity, there are some serious limitations when implementing security imposed by resource limitations in memory, computing, battery life, and bandwidth. A range of attacks can target privacy, control, or availability. This chapter presents an overview of requirements ...

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