A Comprehensive Review of Intrusion Detection Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gaining wide spread acceptance in the regimes where close communication with physical world are important. Due to importance in almost all fields of practical life WSN are vulnerable to wide range of attacks. Securing the network from those attacks is a vital task in order to achieve the required performance. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are security mechanisms against network vulnerabilities. The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate most recently proposed IDS methods in WSNs and identifying their strengths and weaknesses.