TY - JOUR A2 - Alcaraz, Cristina AU - Jiang, Lurong AU - Xu, Qiaoyu AU - Pan, Hangyi AU - Dai, Yanyun AU - Tong, Jijun PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/21 TI - Virus Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Media Access Control Mechanism SP - 6513920 VL - 2020 AB - In wireless sensor networks, network security against virus propagation is one of the challenges with the applications. In severe cases, the network system may become paralyzed. In order to study the process of virus propagation in wireless sensor networks with the media access control mechanism, this paper uses the susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) model to analyze the spreading process. It provides a theoretical basis for the development of virus immune mechanisms to solve network virus attack hidden dangers. The research shows that the media access control (MAC) mechanism in the wireless sensor network can inhibit the process of virus propagation, reduce the network virus propagating speed, and decrease the scale of infected nodes. The listen/sleep duty cycle of this mechanism will affect the suppression effect of virus propagation. The smaller the listen/sleep duty cycle, the stronger the suppression effect. Energy consumption has a peak value under specific infection probability. Meanwhile, it is also found that the spreading scale of the virus in wireless sensor networks can be effectively inhibited by the MAC mechanism. SN - 1939-0114 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6513920 DO - 10.1155/2020/6513920 JF - Security and Communication Networks PB - Hindawi KW - ER -