SECURE AND ROBUST WSN ARCHITECTURE: DETECTION OF MALICIOUS NODES AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON LINK STABILITY.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become a core technology for modern applications, including surveillance, smart agriculture, and Internet of Things (IoTs) ecosystems, but they remain highly vulnerable to malicious nodes that compromise link reliability and communication performance. Conventiona...

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Published in:Scientific Culture Vol. 12; no. 1, Part 1; pp. 4189 - 4206
Main Authors: Sharma, Priyanka, Kidwai, Mohd Suhaib, Charan, Piyush
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Published: University of the Aegean 2026
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          Sharma, Priyanka
          Kidwai, Mohd Suhaib
          Charan, Piyush
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          ECE Department, Integral University Lucknow, UP, India.
          ECE Department, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
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        Wireless sensor networks
        Anomaly detection (Computer security)
        Computer network security
        Long short-term memory
        Reinforcement learning
        Deep learning
        Network performance
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          Wireless sensor networks
          Anomaly detection (Computer security)
          Computer network security
          Long short-term memory
          Reinforcement learning
          Deep learning
          Network performance
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        Graph Convolutional Networks
        Internet of Things
        Link stability
        Long Short-Term Memory
        Malicious nodes
        Q learning
        SMOTE
        Wireless Sensor Networks
      ab: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become a core technology for modern applications, including surveillance, smart agriculture, and Internet of Things (IoTs) ecosystems, but they remain highly vulnerable to malicious nodes that compromise link reliability and communication performance. Conventional anomaly detection and cryptographic approaches are often inadequate due to the resource limitations of sensor nodes and the dynamic nature of network topologies. This study aims to design a secure and robust detection framework that accurately identifies malicious nodes while maintaining link stability. The paper proposes a hybrid model integrating federated Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) for spatial learning and Long ShortTerm Memory (LSTM) networks for temporal sequence analysis, combined with Q learning for self-healing routing. The methodology uses the WSN BFSF dataset with multi-domain feature extraction across traffic, energy, topology, and storage, class balancing with SMOTE, and feature selection through mutual information. Experimental validation using NS3 simulations demonstrates a classification accuracy of 99.70 percent with precision, recall, and F1 scores exceeding 0.996 for all classes. Link stability also improved significantly, with packet delivery ratio rising from 0.57 to 1.0 and average delay reduced from 3.32 to 3.09 units. The findings confirm that the proposed framework enhances both the detection of malicious activity and the resilience of wireless sensor networks in real-world scenarios.
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