Power draining prevention in Ad-Hoc Sensor networks using sensor network encryption protocol

Abstract

Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor networks have a wide variety of applications, including surveillance of critical infrastructure, safety monitoring, and many health-care applications. There is a need for secure communication as sensor networks are mostly deployed in such security and safety critical environments. Previous security mechanisms focus primarily on denial of service communication at the routing or medium access control levels. The resource depletion attacks known as vampire attacks, permanently disables the network by quickly draining the node's battery power. The vampire attacks which are difficult to detect and are easy in spreading. The existing secure routing protocols such as Ariadne, SAODV and SEAD do not protect against vampire attacks. A sensor network encryption protocol using boundary recognition technique is introduced to prevent an instance of resource depletion attack by recursive grouping algorithm and jump point algorithm so that an accurate path is produced to resist the vampire attacks during packet forwarding phase.