Environment Based Secure Transfer of Data in Wireless Sensor Networks
This addresses security vulnerabilities in environment monitoring systems for wireless sensor applications, though it appears incremental by combining existing techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of securing critical sensor data transmission in wireless sensor networks by introducing a combined cryptography-steganography technique with aggregate signatures to protect against adversaries, and proposes an indexed database access scheme to validate resource availability before data transfer.
Most critical sensor readings (Top-k Monitoring) in environment monitoring system are important to many wireless sensor applications. In such applications, sensor nodes transmit the data continuously for a specific time period to the storage nodes. It is responsible for transferring the received results to the Authority on Top-k Query request from them. Dummy data's were added into the original text data to secure the data against adversary in case of hacking the sensor and storage nodes. If storage node gets hacked by adversary, false details will be sent to the authority. An effective technique named aggregate signature to validate the source of the message and also to protect the data against latest security attacks, cryptography technique combined with steganography has been introduced. Indexed based scheme for the database access has also been proposed, to validate the resources against availability before forwarding the data fetch request to storage nodes from Authority.