Authors : P. Sherubha and M. Mohana Priya
Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is tranquil of small, stumpy cost, resource-constrained computing nodes set with low power wireless transceivers. Their unattended nature and possible exploitation in antagonistic environmental conditions poses several confronts in ensuring that a WSN is formed effectively and continue to exist long enough to accomplish its function. Therefore, WSN networks have their individual vulnerabilities that cannot be always undertake by these wired network security solutions. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks has also become a crisis for users of computer systems associated to the Internet. In order to thwart Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in WSNs, present study initiated methods to get rid of DoS attacks approach. We show its efficiency in various attack scenarios, discuss motivation for its operation. Our primary purpose for this research is to kindle the research community into developing original, effectual, efficient and complete prevention, discovery and response mechanisms that address the DoS flooding difficulty before, during and after a definite attack. Detailed examination on all these constraint using different methodology was made in this work to reveal the efficiency and heftiness of the internet resources.
P. Sherubha and M. Mohana Priya, 2016. A Detailed Survey on Security Attacks on Wireless Sensor Network and its Countermeasures. International Journal of Soft Computing, 11: 221-226.