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Review

A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network

by
Attique Ur Rehman
1,2,
Muhammad Sajid Mahmood
3,
Shoaib Zafar
2,
Muhammad Ahsan Raza
4,
Fahad Qaswar
5,
Sumayh S. Aljameel
6,
Irfan Ullah Khan
6 and
Nida Aslam
7,*
1
Department of Computer Science, School of System and Technology, University of Management and Technology, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
2
Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
3
Department of Informatics and Systems, School of System and Technology, UMT, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
4
Department of Information Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60000, Pakistan
5
Faculty of Computing, College of Computing & Applied Science, University Malaysia Pahang, Pekan 26600, Pahang, Malaysia
6
Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
7
SAUDI ARAMCO Cybersecurity Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2529; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162529
Submission received: 26 June 2022 / Revised: 23 July 2022 / Accepted: 28 July 2022 / Published: 12 August 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Driven Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Technologies for Next Generation Networks)
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Abstract

Physical layer security for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a laborious and highly critical issue in the world. Wireless sensor networks have great importance in civil and military fields or applications. Security of data/information through wireless medium remains a challenge. The data that we transmit wirelessly has increased the speed of transmission rate. In physical layer security, the data transfer between source and destination is not confidential, and thus the user has privacy issues, which is why improving the security of wireless sensor networks is a prime concern. The loss of physical security causes a great threat to a network. We have various techniques to resolve these issues, such as interference, noise, fading in the communications, etc. In this paper we have surveyed the different parameters of a security design model to highlight the vulnerabilities. Further we have discussed the various attacks on different layers of the TCP/IP model along with their mitigation techniques. We also elaborated on the applications of WSNs in healthcare, military information integration, oil and gas. Finally, we have proposed a solution to enhance the security of WSNs by adopting the alpha method and handshake mechanism with encryption and decryption.
Keywords: MAC; physical layer; wireless sensor network; attack; challenges; security; cryptography MAC; physical layer; wireless sensor network; attack; challenges; security; cryptography

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Rehman, A.U.; Mahmood, M.S.; Zafar, S.; Raza, M.A.; Qaswar, F.; Aljameel, S.S.; Khan, I.U.; Aslam, N. A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network. Electronics 2022, 11, 2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162529

AMA Style

Rehman AU, Mahmood MS, Zafar S, Raza MA, Qaswar F, Aljameel SS, Khan IU, Aslam N. A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network. Electronics. 2022; 11(16):2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162529

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Rehman, Attique Ur, Muhammad Sajid Mahmood, Shoaib Zafar, Muhammad Ahsan Raza, Fahad Qaswar, Sumayh S. Aljameel, Irfan Ullah Khan, and Nida Aslam. 2022. "A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network" Electronics 11, no. 16: 2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162529

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Rehman, A. U., Mahmood, M. S., Zafar, S., Raza, M. A., Qaswar, F., Aljameel, S. S., Khan, I. U., & Aslam, N. (2022). A Survey on MAC-Based Physical Layer Security over Wireless Sensor Network. Electronics, 11(16), 2529. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162529

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