Mobility Assisted Solutions for Well-known Attacks in Mobile Wireless Sensor Network

Over the past few years the domain of wireless sensor networks applications is increasing widely. So security is becoming a major concern for WSN. These networks are generally deployed randomly and left unattended. These facts coupled together make it vulnerable to different dangerous attacks like node capture attack, node replication attack, wormhole attack, sinkhole attack etc. Several detection schemes and countermeasures have been proposed in the literature to defend against such attacks in static sensor networks. However these solutions rely on fixed locations of sensor nodes and thus do not work in mobile wireless sensor networks where sensor nodes are expected to have mobility nature. This paper provides summarization of typical attacks on mobile wireless sensor networks and survey about the literatures on few important countermeasures relevant to these attacks. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]