Security Attacks In Wireless Sensor Networks Research Articles

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Frameworks in the Industry Revolution 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review.

The 21st century has seen rapid changes in technology, industry, and social patterns. Most industries have moved towards automation, and human intervention has decreased, which has led to a revolution in industries, named the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0) relies heavily on the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). IoT and WSN are used in various control systems, including environmental monitoring, home automation, and chemical/biological attack detection. IoT devices and applications are used to process extracted data from WSN devices and transmit them to remote locations. This systematic literature review offers a wide range of information on Industry 4.0, finds research gaps, and recommends future directions. Seven research questions are addressed in this article: (i) What are the contributions of WSN in IR 4.0? (ii) What are the contributions of IoT in IR 4.0? (iii) What are the types of WSN coverage areas for IR 4.0? (iv) What are the major types of network intruders in WSN and IoT systems? (v) What are the prominent network security attacks in WSN and IoT? (vi) What are the significant issues in IoT and WSN frameworks? and (vii) What are the limitations and research gaps in the existing work? This study mainly focuses on research solutions and new techniques to automate Industry 4.0. In this research, we analyzed over 130 articles from 2014 until 2021. This paper covers several aspects of Industry 4.0, from the designing phase to security needs, from the deployment stage to the classification of the network, the difficulties, challenges, and future directions.

New conceptual representation of collision attack in wireless sensor networks

Diagrammatic methodologies for modeling information security attacks have been developed in various forms (e.g. attack trees, use cases, and misuse cases) and applied for many purposes (e.g. security requirements specifi cation and identifi cation of commonly occurring attack patterns). They play an important role in the development of more effective communication between technical and nontechnical participants than that made possible by text. Recently, Unifi ed Modeling Language (UML) sequence diagrams have been used to model security attacks (e.g. collision attacks and unintelligent replay attacks) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs require protection to preserve the confi dentiality and integrity of sensitive information as well as availability of the system. This is an important research issue because WSNs are used in critical applications such as military battlefi eld surveillance, industrial process monitoring and control, and machine health monitoring. This paper describes an alternative fl ow-based approach for visualizing security attacks in terms of depiction of behavioral interactions. It models security attacks in WSNs and contrasts this method with the sequence-based diagrammatic method. The comparison provides an initial appraisal of the technique with reference to a well-known process modeling methodology. The results indicate that the method can capture the interweaving of attack events to achieve a more complete and detailed picture necessary for better understanding.

UML Modeling of Physical and Data Link Layer Security Attacks in WSN

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are growing extremely and becoming more and more attractive for a variety of application areas such as surveillance of information, industrial secrets, air pollution monitoring, area monitoring, and forest fire detection, home automation, industry monitoring, and many more. As WSN is mostly used for gathering application specific information from the surrounding environment, it is highly essential to protect the sensitive data from unauthorized access. WSNs are vulnerable to various security attacks because of broadcast nature of radio transmission. The primary weakness shared by all wireless application and technologies is the vulnerability to security attacks/threats. The performance and behaviour of a WSN are vastly affected by such attacks. In order to be able to better address the vulnerabilities of WSNs in terms of security, it is important to understand the behaviour of the attacks. This paper aims at addressing behavioral modeling of critical security attack residing in the physical layer and data link layer of wireless sensor network. UML gives the finest diagrammatic representation of any system which is best for developers. Our efforts to synchronize WSN with UML are discussed in the paper. The security attacks are modeled by using state machine diagram of Unified Modelling Language (UML). This modeling of security attacks will help programmers to develop counter measures.

Behavioural Modelling of WSN MAC Layer Security Attacks: A Sequential UML Approach

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are growing enormously and becoming increasingly attractive for a variety of application areas such as tele-health monitoring, industry monitoring, home automation and many more. The primary weakness shared by all wireless application and technologies is the vulnerability to security attacks/threats. The performance and behaviour of a WSN are vastly affected by such attacks. In order to be able to better address the vulnerabilities of WSNs in terms of security, it is important to understand the behaviour of the attacks. This paper addresses the behavioural modelling of medium access control (MAC) security attacks in WSNs. The MAC layer is responsible for energy consumption, delay and channel utilization of the network and attacks on this layer can introduce significant degradation of the individual sensor nodes due to energy drain and in performance due to delays. The behavioural modelling of attacks will be beneficial for designing efficient and secureMAClayer protocols. The security attacks are modelled using a sequential diagram approach of Unified Modelling Language (UML). Further, a new attack definition, specific to hybrid MAC mechanisms, is proposed.