A secure communication suite for cluster-based Underwater Surveillance Networks

Surveilling the water territory of a country by installing an Underwater Surveillance Network (USN) is one of the prominent applications developed for underwater communication. The primary responsibility of a USN is to detect trespassers within the premises and to notify the activities to the responsible authority for further actions. Alike any surveillance network, a USN also possesses several security threats and may undergo several passive and/or active attacks. In this paper, we propose a noble secure communication suite which is resistible against most kind of known attacks. Our propose protocol aimed at gaining confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of the messages being exchanged within the cluster while taking into the consideration of the peculiarities of the underwater communication. Moreover, since our proposed scheme is designed for a cluster-based USN where routing layer activities are not eminent, it is embedded within a media access control (MAC) protocol.