SEC-TEEN: A secure routing protocol for enhanced efficiency in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

When Wireless sensor Networks are composed of a huge number of sensor nodes with limited energy resources, designing an energy efficient protocol will become a critical key issue that needs to be dealt with in order to expand the life span of the entire network. This paper proposes adding security features to the TEEN (Threshold sensitive Energy Efficient sensor Network) protocol by adopting the authentication part of the so-called SEC-LEACH (Secure Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) protocol. The paper then continues by showing how well this improvement goes by running experimental testing with multiple rounds. The new proposed SEC-TEEN improves the network security in and makes it more robust to external threats. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.