ECSP: A Enhanced Conviction and

Strength/Performance Aware Routing

Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

AbstractIn Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), nodes are distributed spatially to monitor physical
environment conditions and are, therefore, vulnerable to variety of attacks. Due to dynamic and
unpredictable changing behavior of nodes, the reliable data delivery is a challenging task. For
WSNs, the traditional cryptographic and authentication-based solutions cannot be adopted due to
their associated cost and incapability to counter nodes misbehavior attacks. Recently, trust-based
solutions have proved to be more effective to address nodes misbehaviour attacks. However, the
existing solutions give rise to high energy consumption and control overheads in pursuit of trust
estimation and network-wide dissemination, which not only adds to network congestion but also
undermines network lifetime. In this paper, we present a trust and energy aware routing protocol
(TERP) that makes use of a distributed trust model for the detection and isolation of misbehaving
and faulty nodes. Moreover, TERP incorporates a composite routing function that encompasses
trust, residual-energy, and hopcounts of neighbor nodes in making routing decisions. This multi-
facet routing strategy helps to balance out energy consumption among trusted nodes, while
routing data using shorter paths. The simulation results demonstrate reduced energy consumption,
improved throughout and network lifetime of TERP when compared with the existing work.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN), sometimes called wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN), are spatially
distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound,
pressure, etc. and to cooperatively pass their data through the network to a main location.

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