Seladg: Secure energy efficient location aware data gathering approach for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Recent trends in wireless sensor networks leads to the development of new protocols for data gathering. In this paper, a secure energy efficient location aware data gathering approach is introduced to secure data gathering. An Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman Key Exchange (ECDHKE) algorithm is utilized for key generation and key exchange between the sensor nodes to maintain security and prevent the data from malicious nodes. The performance of the proposed scheme is validated in terms of packet drop, throughput, energy consumption, residual energy and network lifetime. The proposed scheme achieves better performance than the existing EEHA and SMART schemes.