Distributed Energy Efficient Zonal Relay Node Based Multi Path Secure Routing Protocol (DEZMSR) for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks are used in various applications such as target detection, military, environmental monitoring, disaster relief operations, health care systems, etc. Due to restriction of energy resources in wireless sensor networks, increasing the security and network life time while maintaining the network performance and fairness is challenging. We propose Distributed energy efficient Zonal relay node based Secure Routing Protocol (DEZMSR) to increase security and network life time while maintaining network performance and fairness. Sensor nodes are randomly deployed in hostile environment and hence they are captured by attackers. In the proposed protocol, Zonal relay node is selected based on zone radius and it is protected by using Symmetric Key encryption algorithm. The transmission of data from source node to sink node follows multiple path via zonal relay node. So it will increase the network life time, security and reduce the routing overhead.