Security Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks
Keywords:
WSN (wireless sensor network), DoS (Denial of service), Desynchronization, Syn flooding, Attacks, Sybil, SinkholeAbstract
Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) is an emerging technology and have great potential to be employed in critical situations like
battlefields and commercial applications such as building, traffic surveillance, habitat monitoring and smart homes and many
more scenarios. Wireless communication technique has become an essential tool in any application that requires communication
between one or more sender(s) and multiple receivers. Since multiple users can use this technique simultaneously over a single
channel, security has become a huge concern. Even though there are numerous ways to secure a wireless network and protect the
network from numerous attacks, providing 100% security and maintaining confidentiality is a huge challenge in recent trends.
This paper discusses a wide variety of attacks in WSN and their classification mechanisms.
