Authors: Neeli R Prasad Mahbubul Alam
Publish Date: 2006/05/16
Volume: 37, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 455-469
Abstract
Wireless sensor network is more prone to adversary compare to common wireless network This is due to the nature of wireless sensor network that involves many nodes thus making the system more vulnerable Another reason is the nature of wireless sensor network as an ad hoc network making it having no hierarchal structure complicating management tasks Deploying new technology without security in mind has often proved to be unreasonably dangerousOne of the most fundamental rights in a healthy society is the right of every citizen to be left alone Article 12 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy family home or correspondence” in reality though this right is increasingly being trod upon along with undreamed of comforts and conveniences for the population in general The digital revolution has made it possible to gather as well as store information about human behaviour on a massive scale We leave electronic footprints everywhere we go footprints that are being watched analyzed and sold without our knowledge or even controlThis paper analyses the security issues threats and attacks and requirements of wireless sensor networks This paper further proposes security framework and security architecture to integrate existing technologies with WSN technology to provide secure and private communications to its usersNeeli Rashmi Prasad Associate Professor and Head of Wireless Security and Sensor Networks Lab part of Wireless Network including Embedded systems Group WING Center for TeleInfrastruktur CTIF Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark She received her PhD from University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Rome Italy in the field of “adaptive security for wireless heterogeneous networks” in 2004 and MSc Ir degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology The Netherlands in the field of “Indoor Wireless Communications using Slotted ISMA Protocols” in 1997 She joined Libertel now Vodafone NL Maastricht The Netherlands as a Radio Engineer in 1997 From November 1998 till May 2001 she worked as Systems Architect for Wireless LANs in Wireless Communications and Networking Division of Lucent Technologies now Agere Systems Nieuwegein The Netherlands From June 2001 to July 2003 she was with TMobile Netherlands The Hague The Netherlands as Senior Architect for Core Network Group Subsequently from July 2003 to April 2004 she was Senior Research Manager at PCOMI3 Aalborg DenmarkDuring her industrial career she coordinated several projects Just to name few major ones country wide GSM landmass coverage Vodafone NL the impact of IP based security on Lucent WLAN Wavelan later known as Orinoco Access Points APs implementation of Virtual LAN and IAPP on Orinoco APs VoIP implementation on APs design and implementation of realtime embedded software platform for APs mobile core network evolution towards AllIP for TMobile International to technical project lead for Public WLAN deployment for TMobile NLHer publications range from top journals international conferences and chapters in books She has also coedited and coauthored two books titled “WLAN Systems and Wireless IP for Next Generation Communications” and “Wireless LANs and Wireless IP Security Mobility QoS and Mobile Network Integration” published by Artech House 2001 and 2005 She has supervised several Masters Students projectsShe was the Technical Program Committee CoChair IWS2005/WPMC05 held on September 18–22 2005 in Aalborg She is the Project Coordinator of EC Network of Excellence Project CRUISE on Wireless Sensor Networks She is also cluster leader of EC Cluster for Sensor NetworksMahbubul Alam PhD student at Center for TeleInfrastruktur CTIF Aalborg University Denmark He is with Cisco Systems Inc Netherlands from 2001 and worked as Consulting Systems Engineer in the field of mobile and wireless technology and since September 2002 he works as Business Analyst in areas of mobile wireless and security He is now based in Cisco Systems Inc San Jose CA USA with focus on home networking wireless and security Previously he was with Siemens Netherlands as Systems Engineer and as Technical Team Leader of UMTS group He received M Sc degree in Electrical Electronic Engineering from Delft University of Technology The Netherlands in 1998 He has published several papers at international conferences journals IEEE communication magazine and chapters for books His research interest is in the field of wireless sensor networks
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