Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the current research field in computer science & has growing use in day to day life. As a new technology, it has several research challenges and vast opportunities for the researchers. This paper highlights WSN, its architecture, challenges, applications and classification of various protocols concerning it. It also classifies various security protocols to make WSN a secure network.

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