Proximate node aware optimal and secure data aggregation in wireless sensor network based IoT environment

Abstract

Internet of things (IoT) has become one of the eminent phenomena in human life along with its collaboration with wireless sensor networks (WSNs), due to enormous growth in the domain; there has been a demand to address the various issues regarding it such as energy consumption, redundancy, and overhead. Data aggregation (DA) is considered as the basic mechanism to minimize the energy efficiency and communication overhead; however, security plays an important role where node security is essential due to the volatile nature of WSN. Thus, we design and develop proximate node aware secure data aggregation (PNA-SDA). In the PNA-SDA mechanism, additional data is used to secure the original data, and further information is shared with the proximate node; moreover, further security is achieved by updating the state each time. Moreover, the node that does not have updated information is considered as the compromised node and discarded. PNA-SDA is evaluated considering the different parameters like average energy consumption, and average deceased node; also, comparative analysis is carried out with the existing model in terms of throughput and correct packet identification.