Paper A Survey of Energy Efficient Security Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract—Data security and energy aware communication are key aspects in design of modern ad hoc networks. In this paper we investigate issues associated with the devel-opment of secure IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor net-works (WSNs) – a special type of ad hoc networks. We fo-cus on energy aware security architectures and protocols for use in WSNs. To give the motivation behind energy efficient secure networks, first, the security requirements of wireless sensor networks are presented and the relationships between network security and network lifetime limited by often in-sufficient resources of network nodes are explained. Second, a short literature survey of energy aware security solutions for use in WSNs is presented. Keywords—energy aware security architectures, routing proto-cols, security protocols, wireless sensor networks, WSN. 1