Title: Energy efficient routing algorithm over cross layer design and enrichment of security in ZigBee network

Authors: P. Anitha; P.S. Periasamy

Addresses: Department of Computer Applications, K.S.R. College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K.S.R. College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract: The necessity for saving energy, increasing the channel utilisation and security in wireless personal area networks (WPAN) has become crucial, particularly in essential fields like military and medical applications. Thus ZigBee desires an efficient routing protocol to deal with lowest amount of energy expenses and highest network life time. In this paper, ZigBee provides cross layer network protection and application service carried out with hierarchical cluster tree formation. MAC layer utilises the cluster tree formula to establish tree configuration. Subsequently, that cluster table is taken to the routing layer protocol of cross layer ZigBee-based routing protocol (CLZBRP). Here CLZBRP is compared with ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing (AODV) and tree-routing (TR) with QOS. The Sybil attack is encountered by the defense mechanism called random key predistribution technique (I-RKP). It is observed from the experimental result that the proposed approach provides good security against Sybil attack with very high throughput using CLZBRP-I-RKP.

Keywords: energy efficiency; routing protocols; network security; ZigBee networks; CLZBRP-I-RKP; cross layer design; cluster table; Sybil attacks; wireless PANs; personal area networks; WPAN; energy consumption; network lifetime; ADOV; random key predistribution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2017.082082

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2017 Vol.10 No.2, pp.136 - 147

Received: 07 Nov 2013
Accepted: 08 Oct 2014
Published online: 07 Feb 2017 *

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