An Energy Efficient Deactivation Technique for Reactive Jammers in Wireless Sensor Networks

In recent days, reactive jamming attack has emerged as a great security threat to wireless sensor network [WSN]. Several strategies are developed to identify the trigger nodes, whose legitimate transmission activates any reactive jammer. After identifying the trigger node, the node will be shut down to deactivate the jammer and its routing information is deleted from the routing table, then the node can’t be used again in the network. Since the node can’t be used again in the network it is one of the major drawbacks. Hence to overcome the problem, In this paper we propose a novel approach, where the identified trigger nodes are put in to the scanning mode, so that we can reuse the trigger nodes, after deactivating the jammer node in the network.