Countermeasures of Different Jamming Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks, because of its low-cost design and ease of reprogramming, it is easy for the adversary to conduct jamming or radio interference that can easily cause DoS attacks. These attacks can be launched against WSNs. The security attacks on WSNs are increasing drastically, and these degrade the performance in terms of throughput, energy consumption and delay. This article models the jamming attacks behaviour and analyses the WSNs performance. Jamming attack jams the network traffic by blocking the communication channel. The article explores the jamming attack modelling and then presents countermeasures against the jamming attacks. Then, the simulation parameters are presented along with summarizing the severance of various jamming attacks. Finally, we conclude the paper along with the future research scope.