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An Intelligent Information Security Mechanism for the
Network Layer of WSN: BIOSARP
Kashif Saleem, Norsheila Fisal, Sharifah Hafizah, and Rozeha A. Rashid
Telematic Research Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 Skudai, Malaysia
{kashif_pg,sheila,sharifah,rozeha }@fke.utm.my
Abstract. In multihop wireless sensor network (WSN) users or nodes are
constantly entering and leaving the network. Classical techniques for network
management and control are not conceived to efficiently face such challenges.
New mechanisms are required, to work in a self-organized manner. The
techniques found in nature promises WSN, to self-adapt the environmental
changes and also self-protect itself from the malicious stuff. This paper introduces
a biological inspired secure autonomous routing protocol (BIOSARP). The self-
optimized routing protocol is enhanced with artificial Immune System (AIS)
based autonomous security mechanism. It enhances WSN in securing itself from
the abnormalities and most common WSN routing attacks. NS2 based simulation
analysis and results of BIOSARP are presented. The comparison of proposed
intelligent protocol with SAID and SRTLD security mechanisms for WSN is
further exhibited, in terms of processing time and energy consumption.
Keywords: Artificial Immune system, Human Immune Blood Brain Barrier
System, Human Immune System, Intelligence, Self-Optimization, Self-Security,
Wireless Sensor Network.
1 Introduction
Wireless communication plays an important role in telecommunication sector and has
huge importance for future research. The communication is making the world's life
easier with the development of sensing and monitoring systems. In these sensing and
monitoring systems new gadgets and software advancement are frequently available
to the end-user. In infrastructure less networks such as WSN, the deployment area
may be out of human reach. The challenges such as growing complexity, unreachable
maintenance and unsecure communication demand for mechanism that can maintain
the features of WSN such as multihop routing in dynamically changing environmental
in a complete autonomous mode. In order to address autonomous capability for
multihop ad-hoc network, it has been visualize that self-organized and self-secure
network application can fully realize the network operational objectives.
Probabilistic methods that provide scalability and preventability can be found in
nature and adapted to technology. Towards this vision, it is observed that various
biological principles are capable to overcome the above adaptability issues. The most