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Chapter 62
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8751-6.ch062
Energy Consumption Analysis
of Secure and Clustered
Wireless Sensor Network
ABSTRACT
Due to limited energy resources, diferent design strategies have been proposed in order to achieve
better energy efciency in wireless sensor networks, and organizing sensor nodes into clusters and
data aggregation are among such solutions. In this work, secure communication protocol is added
to clustered wireless sensor network. Security is a very important requirement that keeps the overall
system usable and reliable by protecting the information in the network from attackers. The proposed
and implemented AES block cipher provides confdentiality to the communication between nodes and
base station. The energy efciency of LEACH clustered network and with added security is analyzed in
detail. In LEACH clustering along with the implemented data aggregation technique 48% energy has
been saved compared to not clustered and no aggregation network. The energy consumption overhead
of the AES-based security is 9.14%. The implementation is done in Contiki and the simulation is carried
out in Cooja emulator using sky motes.
1. INTRODUCTION
Wireless sensor networks are proliferating
into our everyday life in the form of differ-
ent applications, such as eHealth (Ho, ym.,
2009; Honeine;Mourad;Kallas;Snoussi;Amo
ud;& Francis, 2011; Singh;Tiwary;Hoon-Jae;&
Chung, 2009), environment and infrastructure
monitoring (Yunseop;Evans;& Iversen, 2008),
home automation(Langhammer & Kays, 2012;
Tudose, ym., 2011; Zhang;Song;Wang;& Meng,
2011), traffic control (Laisheng;Xiaohong;Zhen
gxia;Bing;& Pengzhi, 2009; Zou;Yang;& Cao,
2009), agriculture (Vijayakumar & Rosario,
2011; Zhang Y., 2011)[29-30], and manufact
uring(Bertocco;Gamba;Sona;& Vitturi, 2008;
Ashim Pokharel
University of Turku, Finland
Ethiopia Nigussie
University of Turku, Finland