Secure and energy aware shortest path routing framework for WSN

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network is a network in which the sensor nodes are operated in a distributed and self-organizing fashion. Due to this nature the sensor nodes in this network are vulnerable to various malicious attacks. The sensor nodes are resource constrained, i.e., they have limited resources such as bandwidth, energy and memory. Along with Security and Energy Consumption, Delay also needs to be considered during the routing protocol design. This proposes a Trust and Energy Aware Routing Framework which provides resilience to various malicious attacks. The proposed framework helps in finding trusted nodes with maximum residual energy and routes the data through shorter paths. The experimental analysis with varying network parameters as varying the malicious nodes and varying packet size reveal the robustness of proposed approach. Total Throughput, Energy Consumption and End-to-End Delay are considered for experimental evaluation.