Energy-efficient Secure Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

In view of the problems of limited energy of the nodes and threat to routing security in wireless sensor networks, Energy-efficient Secure Routing Protocol (ESRP), an energy-efficient secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks, is proposed. According to the structured topology of hexagonal mesh, hops at different directions are calculated on the optimal route for transmitting data packets in ESRP. With the help of characters of hops, the nodes can rapidly find a route among multiple optimal routes by the policy of the twice probability routing selection. Data breach is prevented by data encryption and data security is realized by one-way hash key chain and symmetric key authentication. Analysis and simulation results show that ESRP has better performance on security and saving energy.