International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking Vol. 14, No. 1 (2021), pp.11-20 http://dx.doi.org/10.33832/ijfgcn.2021.14.1.02 ISSN: 2207-9645 IJFGCN Copyright ⓒ 2021 NADIA LEVERAGING VULNERABILITIES IN SENSOR BASED IOT EDGE COMPUTING NETWORKS ^ Gasim Othman Alandjani Computer Science and Engineering Department. Yanbu University College, Yanbu Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Alandjanig@rcyci.edu.sa Abstract— The Internet of Things (IoTs) equipped sensor systems gather data from sensors and analyze it through billions of interconnected devices and smart motes. Due to purpose of deployment easiness and reduced operational cost, wireless sensors are embedded in the IoT networks. However, the issues related to ever increasing security threats and vulnerabilities of networks for various cyber-attacks have led to widespread research interest in this field. Few of the important concerns in wireless sensor networking systems are thrust for low-latency, seamless handoff, connectivity, resilience to vulnerabilities and trustworthiness. The mass scale penetration of IoT systems in society has resulted in an exhaustive data analysis of Edge Computing and Wireless Sensor networks such as security, interoperability, latency, robustness, maintainability, and scalability in real time scenarios. This research aims at providing recent status of protocols and standards in sensor based IoT edge computing networks as well as security threats and deep analysis of vulnerabilities in various daily life IoT applications. Also, the paper discusses the concept of connection redundancy to avoid latency or loss of data and provide seamless data worthiness. Finally, this study provides in-depth analysis of open issues and challenges for leveraging vulnerabilities in smart sensor based IoT systems and edge computing networks. Keywords— Internet of Things, IoT Vulnerabilities, Wireless Sensor Networks, Edge Computing Networks 1. INTRODUCTION The IoT systems are responsible for service provisioning to smart environments where hardware and software management, heterogenicity, cost effectiveness and energy efficiency are of prime concern. Sensor based IoT systems are believed to be public-centric as these significantly address the daily life issues encountered to people in fields like health, agriculture, environment management, smart cities, public safety, disaster management, education, robotics, AI, machine learning, Cloudnet, IoT toys, gaming etc. [1]. Due to large scale public adoption of sensory intelligent systems, the concept of wireless sensor networks and devices has also emerged as a viable mean to resolve many issues. Data amalgamation at sensor level reduces the latency but it has trade off with battery life and energy consumption due to large amount of data handling by sensors itself thus enhances cost factor [2]. Hence, one of the important unfavorable technique used in IoT systems for efficient data transmission is to increase the energy consumption in IoTs. This has invoked an urgency and needfulness to design energy efficient algorithms and protocols in sensor based IoT systems. ^ Received: January 8, 2021 Reviewed: March 10, 2021 Accepted: March 15, 2021