Optimal Dynamic Clustering and Secure Transmission Approach to Prevent and Detect the Sinkhole Attack in Wireless Sensor Networks

• Published in: International Journal on Information Sciences and Computing Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
• Main Authors: Udaya Suriya Raj Kumar, D, Rajamani Vayanaperumal, V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chennai Sathyabama University 2016
• ISSN: 0973-9092
• DOI: 10.18000/ijisac.50157

The objective of this paper is to mainly focus on a trust aware model between the communicating sensor nodes and the base station. To perform efficient data aggregation in sensor networks, an improved cluster head selection has been proposed in this study. The algorithm employed for the study is based on Energy Efficient Dynamic Clustering (EEDC) incorporated adaptive Genetic Algorithm (AGA). The main aim of authentication based schemes is to confirm the authenticity of a node by validating its key information. The sinkhole attack in WSN occurs due to the drawing of the attention of all or almost all traffic from a particular domain by a compromised node. The compromised node is the one which looks attractive among all other surrounding nodes in terms of routing metric. The changes that have been occurring in the control fields imply the adversity of the nodes and can be detected by the BS using the proposed strategy. An improved ant colonization technique based secure routing protocol for path selection. To overcome the node failure and to increase the efficiency of the overall network, the proposed mechanism encompasses two paths for data forwarding.