doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7301-1_1020

ABSTRACT

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an emerging technology that shows great promise for various applications. The inclusion of wireless communication technology incurs various types of security threats. Sensor nodes are typically smaller, less powerful, and more prone to failure than nodes in an ad hoc network. These differences indicate that protocols that are valid in the context of ad-hoc networks may not be directly applicable for sensor networks. The intent of this paper is to investigate the security related issues and challenges in wireless sensor networks and personal sensor network. We review several protocols like ieee 802.15 and UPnP, they provide security in sensor networks, with an emphasis on privacy and security in WSN (longer range) and PSN (shorter range).

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