A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 2-22

  Wang, Yong ^a   Attebury, Garhan ^a   Ramamurthy, Byrav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMITED ENERGY RESOURCE; POSSIBLE FUTURES; RESEARCH ISSUES; SECURE DATA AGGREGATIONS; SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

ENERGY RESOURCES; INTRUSION DETECTION; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; NETWORK SECURITY; SURVEYS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 56949088196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2006.315852     Document Type: Review

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