Abstract
Congestion is one of the biggest problems faced by resource-constrained networks. Researchers have developed various congestion control strategies for sensor-based networks, but these strategies have mostly focused on the natural ways of congestion occurrence and neglected the possibility of malicious nodes intentionally creating congestion-like conditions. Moreover, Congestion occurs in WSNs for a variety of reasons such as resource constraints, many-to-one transmission manner, traffic bursts, packet forwarding and receiving rate mismatch, etc. This fact led to the development of a security attack-resistant congestion control mechanism that accounts for both potential sources of congestion in sensor nodes using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach as multiple factors are responsible for the existence of this undesired event. The proposed technique security aware congestion control using fuzzy AHP (SACC-FAHP) is an extension of the SACC-AHP technique. Since the AHP technique has a major limitation of subjective judgment. The fuzzy logic approach has improved the decision-making ability of basic AHP since it does not cover vagueness in personal judgments. Both techniques have been compared under the same simulation environment. According to the results of the simulation, SACC-FAHP produces better results than SACC-AHP.
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The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the UGC, New Delhi through the Senior Research Fellowship. The authors thank all the faculties and researchers of the Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University for the continuous and fruitful discussion on this topic.
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Kushwaha, V., Pandey, D. Security Aware Congestion Management Using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchal Process for Wireless Sensor Networks. Natl. Acad. Sci. Lett. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009-023-01290-3
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