Wireless Sensor Networks are emerging as the latest tier for data monitoring in many applications like commercial, industrial, military etc. Security in WSN’s is one of the major challenges in order to provide protected and authenticated communication between sensor nodes. However providing secure routing in WSN is a matter of fundamental concern. Although a wide variety of routing protocols have been proposed for WSN’s but most of them do not take security into account as a main goal. Routing attacks can have devastating effects on WSNs .Hence it is the major challenge when designing robust security mechanism for WSNs. In this paper ,we examine some of the most common routing attacks, routing protocols and security schemes in WSNs. It is suggested that in order to overcome the challenges of routing attacks in WSNs , some new routing protocols or strategy must be carefully designed so that attacks can be rendered meaningless .

WSN, Security, Attack, Routing. Survey

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