SHRP - Secure Hybrid Routing Protocol over Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
A data collection via secure routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs)has given attention to one of security issues. WSNs pose unique security challengesdue to their inherent limitations in communication and computing, which makes vulnerableto various attacks. Thus, how to gather data securely and efficiently based onrouting protocol is an important issue of WSNs. In this paper, we propose a securehybrid routing protocol, denoted by SHRP, which combines the geographic basedscheme and hierarchical scheme. First of all, SHRP differentiates sensor nodes intotwo categories, nodes with GPS (NG) and nodes with antennas (NA), to put differentroles. After proposing a new clustering scheme, which uses a new weight factor toselect cluster head efficiently by using energy level, center weight and mobility afterforming cluster, we propose routing scheme based on greedy forwarding. The packetsin SHRP are protected based on symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystem, which providesconfidentiality, integrity and authenticity. The performance analyses are doneby using NS2 and show that SHRP could get better results of packet loss rate, deliveryratio, end to end delay and network lifetime compared to the well known previousschemes.