Pre-Vaccination and Quarantine Approach for Defense Against Worms Propagation of Malicious Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks

Networksecurityposesachallengetowirelesssensornetworks(WSNs)achievingitstruepotential. It ishard to tackledue tooperationalconstraintsofnetworks.Wormshavebecomeanemergent threat to thewirelessnetworks.Thespreadofworms in thenetwork isepidemic innature.This articleproposesanovelmathematicalmodelwithpre-vaccinationandquarantineforstudyofworm propagationdynamicsinWSNthatisbasedonepidemicmodel.Further,theauthorshavedevised anexpressiontodeterminethresholdcommunicationradiusandnodedensity.Theobjectiveofthis proposedmodelistostudythepropagationdynamicsofwormsinwirelesssensornetworks.Through themodel,investigatethestabilityconditionofnetworksinthepresenceofmaliciouscodes.The experimentalstudiesindicatethattheproposedmodeloutperformsintermsofsecurityandenergy efficiencyoverotherexistingmodels.Itisaleaptowardworm-controllingmechanismsinsensor networks.Finally,thecontrolmechanismandperformanceoftheproposedmodelisvalidatedthrough extensivesimulationresults. KeyWORDS Basic Reproduction Number, Communication Radius, Epidemic Model, Equilibrium, Node Density, Stability, Wireless Sensor Network, Worm

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