Data Link Layer' Security Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nowadays, the most exciting and challenging research domain remains Wireless Sensor Networks due to their rapidly progress in Information and Communication Technology. Follow-on different debates over the most effective means of securing wireless sensor networks, the intent of this paper is to investigate the security issues and challenges as well as solutions in WSN. Authentication is the primary focus, as the most malicious attacks on a network are the work of imposters, such as DOS attacks. Nevertheless, the data link layer is not spared, in this paper we emphasized on it for the reason that it handles everything within one hop such as the media access control (MAC), the error control (EC) and the power control (PC) while the link layer specifies the handshakes and handles retransmissions.

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