Research Article Open Access

Performance Analysis of Cluster Based Protocols in Sensor Networks and their Vulnerabilities

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks as gained lots of impact in the real time applications like monitoring, surveillances and tracking. These applications are mainly rely on the collection of critical information where manual information collection is very difficult task. WSNs are more vulnerable to many types of threats, providing security will be very complex due to the resource constraint sensors. The proposed work aims to study and analyze the vulnerabilities and its effect on the performance of sensor networks in cluster based routing protocols. An exhaustive analysis is presented by captivating the standard clustering architecture with its different stage of operating modes. A comparison is done for with latest existing security solutions which mainly deal with cluster based protocols in wireless sensor networks. An Open Systems Interconnection layer wise comparison is presented with the possible vulnerabilities at each layer. This work also enlightens the literal need of security and its requirements in wireless sensor networks for an efficient information system

Andhe Dharani, Manjuprasad B, Shantharam Nayak, Vijayalakshmi M.N

To read the full article Download Full Article