Title: Efficient and Secure Routing Protocol for WSN-A Thesis,
Abstract: Advances in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have provided the availability of
small and low-cost sensors with the capability of sensing various types of
physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless
communication. Since WSN protocols are application specific, the focus has been
given to the routing protocols that might differ depending on the application
and network architecture. In this work, novel routing protocols have been
proposed which is a cluster-based security protocol is named as Efficient and
Secure Routing Protocol (ESRP) for WSN. The goal of ESRP is to provide an
energy efficient routing solution with dynamic security features for clustered
WSN. During the network formation, a node which is connected to a Personal
Computer (PC) has been selected as a sink node. Once the sensor nodes were
deployed, the sink node logically segregates the other nodes in a cluster
structure and subsequently creates a WSN. This centralized cluster formation
method is used to reduce the node level processing burden and avoid multiple
communications. In order to ensure reliable data delivery, various security
features have been incorporated in the proposed protocol such as Modified
Zero-Knowledge Protocol (MZKP), Promiscuous hearing method, Trapping of
adversaries and Mine detection. One of the unique features of this ESRP is that
it can dynamically decide about the selection of these security methods, based
on the residual energy of nodes.