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On the Security of Wireless Sensor Networks

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2005, Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005

https://doi.org/10.1007/11424857_75
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Wireless Sensor Networks are extremely vulnerable against any kind of internal or external attacks, due to several factors such as resource-constrained nodes and lack of tamper-resistant packages. As a result, security must be an important factor to have in mind when designing the infrastructure and protocols of sensor networks. In this paper we survey the "state-of-the-art" security issues in sensor networks and highlight the open areas of research.

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