Foundations of Intrusion Detection Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract Intrusion detection system for wireless sensor network is one of the growing research field in recent years. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of tiny devices. These tiny devices have limited energy, computational power, transmission range and memory. However, wireless sensor networks are deployed mostly in open and unguarded environment. Therefore, intrusion detection is one of the most important security aspects for wireless sensor networks. There are two types of intrusion detection mechanism: anomaly based and signature based. In this paper, we have tried to set the theoretical foundation of this new research area first, before doing design and implement an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) specifically for sensor networks.