title: FuGeF: A Resource Bound Secure Forwarding Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.
abstract: Resource bound security solutions have facilitated the mitigation of spatio-temporal attacks by altering protocol semantics to provide minimal security while maintaining an acceptable level of performance. The Dynamic Window Secured Implicit Geographic Forwarding (DWSIGF) routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been proposed to achieve a minimal selection of malicious nodes by introducing a dynamic collection window period to the protocol's semantics. However, its selection scheme suffers substantial packet losses due to the utilization of a single distance based parameter for node selection. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy-based Geographic Forwarding protocol (FuGeF) to minimize packet loss, while maintaining performance. The FuGeF utilizes a new form of dynamism and introduces three selection parameters: remaining energy, connectivity cost, and progressive distance, as well as a Fuzzy Logic System (FLS) for node selection. These introduced mechanisms ensure the appropriate selection of a non-malicious node. Extensive simulation experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed FuGeF protocol as compared to DWSIGF variants. The simulation results show that the proposed FuGeF outperforms the two DWSIGF variants (DWSIGF-P and DWSIGF-R) in terms of packet delivery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Wireless and Communication Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technolog, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. brossadiq@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Idris Abubakar
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Umar
authors.affiliation: Department of Wireless and Communication Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technolog, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. zurinamh@upm.edu.my.
authors.forename: Zurina
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mohd Hanapi
authors.affiliation: Research Centre of Excellence for Wireless and Photonic Network (WIPNET), Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. brossadiq@gmail.com.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sali
authors.affiliation: Department of Wireless and Communication Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technolog, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia. zuriati@upm.edu.my.
authors.forename: Zuriati A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Zulkarnain
keywords: fuzzy logic; geographic forwarding; malicious nodes; node selection; routing protocol; security; wireless sensor network