Intrusion Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Ant Colony

Widely used computer systems have always become a target for different type of attacks. With the specifications of easiness in deploying and setting up low cost and low power consumption systems, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have also become a specific target for attackers. The WSNs, which consist of sensor nodes that sends information they perceive and forward to a base station/sink, cannot be directly protected by the traditional security precautions because of low resources of nodes, such as memory and computing capability. Hence, it is tried to find out different methods for intrusion detection in WSNs. This paper surveys frameworks for intrusion detection in WSNs by using a swarm optimization algorithm as ant colony approach.