A Survey on Energy Drainage Attacks and Countermeasures in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Abstract
Owing to limited resources, implementing conventional security components in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) rather than wireless networks is difficult. Because most sensor nodes are typically powered by batteries, the battery power should be sufficiently long to prevent the shortening of the network lifetime. Therefore, many studies have focused on detecting and avoiding energy drainage attacks in WSNs. However, a survey paper has yet to be published for energy drain attacks in WSNs since 2019. Therefore, we present a novel comprehensive survey paper for energy drainage attacks in WSNs. First, we address an overview of WSNs and their security issues. Next, we explain the methodology for this study and explain the existing approaches for energy drainage attacks in layered architectures. Based on the results of this analysis, open issues and further research directions are presented.
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OpenAlex topics: Security in Wireless Sensor Networks · Network Security and Intrusion Detection · Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
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Affiliations
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon 34057, Republic of Korea
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
Funding
Ministry of Science and ICT
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