Candidate Base Stations a Security Solution For Compromised Base Stations In Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks heavily rely on base stations for data processing and routing within the network itself and the outside world. Considerably less attention has been put on the security of base stations in comparison with sensor nodes, simply because the base stations are expected to be secure enough not to be attacked or even be compromised. In this research paper we propose, Candidate Base Stations, base station failure detection, in which the sensor network should be able to automatically and promptly resort to a candidate base station, which takes over the roles of a compromised base station. Our strategy of candidate base stations, tries to ensure presence of the same number of base stations on the network even after some have been compromised. With candidate base stations, base station security is more guaranteed, our experimental results indicate a greater secure network with this scenario.