Enhancing Wireless Sensor Network Security using Artificial Neural Network based Trust Model

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is widely used in environmental conditions where the systems depend on sensing and monitoring approach. Water pollution monitoring system depends on a network of wireless sensing nodes which communicate together depending on a specific topological order. The nodes distributed in a harsh environment to detect the polluted zones within the WSN range based on the sensed data. WSN exposes several malicious attacks as a consequence of its presence in such open environment, so additional techniques are needed alongside with the existing cryptography approach. In this paper an enhanced trust model based on the use of radial base artificial neural network (RBANN) is presented to predict the future behavior of each node based on its weighted direct and indirect behaviors, in order to provide a comprehensive trust model that helps to detect and eliminate malicious nodes within the WSN. The proposed model considered the limited power, storage and processing capabilities of the system.

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