Security in sensor networks: industry trends, present and future research directions

Security is of critical importance for the successful deployment of sensor networks, since it can ensure properties such as data integrity, secrecy, and availability. We have the unique opportunity to ensure security even for early deployments of sensor ...

Recent advances in electronics and wireless communication technologies have enabled the development of large-scale wireless sensor networks that consist of many low-power, low-cost, and small-size sensor nodes. Sensor networks hold the promise of ...

A wireless sensor network is a network of small computers, sensor nodes, that can gather information via its sensors, do computations and communicate wirelessly with other sensor nodes. In general a wireless sensor network is an ad hoc network in which ...