Vol. 20 No. 3 (2021): Revista UIS Ingenierías
Articles

Security perspective of wireless sensor networks

Fernando Gutiérrez-Portela
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Florina Almenares-Mendoza
Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Liliana Calderón-Benavides
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
Efren Romero-Riaño
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga

Published 2021-06-07

Keywords

  • wireless sensor networks,
  • WSN attacks,
  • security mechanisms,
  • artificial intelligence,
  • intrusion detection,
  • computational resources,
  • countermeasures,
  • ZigBee protocol,
  • machine learning,
  • supervised techniques,
  • unsupervised techniques,
  • anomaly detection,
  • clustering algorithms,
  • VOSviewer,
  • security prospective
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Gutiérrez-Portela, F., Almenares-Mendoza, F., Calderón-Benavides, L., & Romero-Riaño, E. (2021). Security perspective of wireless sensor networks. Revista UIS Ingenierías, 20(3), 189–202. https://doi.org/10.18273/revuin.v20n3-2021014

Abstract

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), nodes are vulnerable to security attacks because they are installed in a harsh environment with limited power and memory, low processing power, and medium broadcast transmission. Therefore, identifying threats, challenges, and solutions of security and privacy is a talking topic today. This article analyzes the research work that has been carried out on the security mechanisms for the protection of WSN against threats and attacks, as well as the trends that emerge in other countries combined with future research lines. From the methodological point of view, this analysis is shown through the visualization and study of works indexed in databases such as IEEE, ACM, Scopus, and Springer, with a range of 7 years as an observation window, from 2013 to 2019. A total of 4,728 publications were obtained, with a high rate of collaboration between China and India. The research raised developments, such as advances in security principles and defense mechanisms, which have led to the design of countermeasures in intrusion detection. Finally, the results show the interest of the scientific and business community in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) to optimize performance measurements.

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