An optimised QoS-based clustering with multipath secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Recent advances in wireless technology with networking capabilities have generated a lot of interest to design secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Generally, residual energy of sensors in sink coverage area is drained very quickly compared to other area nodes in WSNs. The proposed optimised QoS-based clustering with multipath secure routing protocol (OQoS-CMSRP) for WSNs reduces the energy consumption in sink coverage area and solving hot spot problem. The proposed protocol is used to find near optimal multi-hop communication path from sink to sensors for selecting the next hop neighbour nodes. An enhanced (k, n)-threshold secret sharing scheme is required to make n shares and recover the secret by using k shares based on Hermite's interpolating polynomial. The proposed protocol is to provide end-to-end security from different network layer attacks and to provide an efficient service for transmitting data in secure and reliable manner.