An Energy Efficient and Secured Scheme for Adaptive MAC Protocols in Sensor Networks with application to Underwater Acoustic Networks

Project Member(s): Hoang, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: National ICT Australia

Start year: 2015

Summary: Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have received growing interest due to their potential application to oceanographic data collection, environment monitoring, undersea exploration, disaster prevention, assisted navigation, and tactical surveillance. Unfortunately, establishing an effective UASN brings about new challenges due to unique characteristics of the underwater acoustic communication channel: high propagation delay due to the low speed of acoustic signals, which is approximate five orders of magnitude slower than radio waves; limited acoustic channel bandwidth, which leads to a low data rate; high bit error rate; limited battery power of underwater sensors; and finally weak security in the design of wireless sensors and communication protocols. In order to address the problem of low performance, less secured and high energy consumption, an energy efficient adaptive MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks for both data transmission and security procedures will be proposed and investigated in the first stage of the research. The results of the first stage will form the basis for the investigation of security frameworks for wireless sensor networks/Internet of Things.

Publications:

Nguyen, T, Hoang, D & Seneviratne, A 1970, 'Dirichlet-Based Initial Trust Establishment for Personal Space IoT Systems', 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), IEEE, Kansas City, MO, USA, pp. 1-6.
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Nguyen, T, Hoang, D & Seneviratne, A 1970, 'Exploring Challenge-Response Mechanism Designs for IoT Initial Trust Establishment', 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), IEEE, pp. 1-6.
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Nguyen, T, Hoang, D, Nguyen, D & Seneviratne, A 1970, 'Initial trust establishment for personal space IoT systems', 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications: Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), IEEE, Atlanta, USA, pp. 784-789.
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Nguyen, T, Hoang, D & Seneviratne, A 1970, 'Challenge-response trust assessment model for personal space IoT', 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PerCom Workshops), IEEE, Australia, pp. 1-6.
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Keywords: Adaptive MAC Protocol, Underwater Acoustic Networks; Wireless Sensor Networks, Security of Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Efficient Networks

FOR Codes: Networking and Communications, Fixed Line Data Networks and Services, Network systems and services

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.