Abstract:
The miniaturization of electronics, along with the advances in wireless communications and the development of multi-functional sensors, has lead to the birth of a new technology named Wireless Sensor Networks. Business week (1999) even went as far as to identify micro-sensor networking as one of the 21 most important technologies of the 21st century.
A wireless sensor network is simply defined as a large collection of motes, each equipped with its own sensor, processor and radio. However, due to the lack of tamper-resistant packaging and the insecure nature of wireless communications channels, these networks are vulnerable to both internal and external attacks. Couple this with the limited resources available to these networks (memory, energy, processing power) and we are faced with many challenging and complex research issues.
In this presentation, we will be outlining the inadequacy of traditional security measures for such applications. Our focus will be on developing a fault tolerant and energy efficient security solution for Wireless Sensor Networks.
About the speaker:
Sophia completed her Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University in 2004 and has been working on a MEngSc by Research degree at Monash since April 2005. Working under the supervision of Dr N. Mani and Prof G. Egan, Sophia is pursuing research in the area of security for Wireless Sensor Networks.
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