Energy Harvesting based Protection of Border Surveillance Systems

Border surveillance is one of the famous mission critical applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), whose aim is to monitor country borderlines, detect intruders, and track their trajectories. However, such an application can be threatened by specific types of security attacks affecting its availability, lifespan, and detection accuracy. In this paper, we propose a solution to secure border surveillance WSNs application. After identifying and describing the security attacks specific to such an application, we extend the sensor nodes architecture by introducing a Radio Frequency IDentification (REID) system, and we design powerless protocols and techniques for mutual authentication and proximity verification between sensor nodes. A simulation is conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed techniques in detecting the identified attacks.