  Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)-based internet of things (IoT) are among the
fast booming technologies that drastically contribute to different systems
management and resilience data accessibility. Designing a robust IoT network
imposes some challenges such as data trustworthiness (DT) and power management.
This paper presents a repeated game model to enhance clustered WSNs-based IoT
security and DT against the selective forwarding (SF) attack. Besides, the
model is capable of detecting the hardware (HW) failure of the cluster members
(CMs) and conserve the power consumption due to packet retransmission. The
model relies on TDMA protocol to facilitate the detection process and to avoid
collision between the delivered packets at the cluster head (CH). The proposed
model aims to keep packets transmitting, isotropic or non-isotropic
transmission, from the CMs to the CH for maximizing the DT and aims to
distinguish between the malicious CM and the one suffering from HW failure.
Accordingly, it can manage the consequently lost power due to the malicious
attack effect or HW malfunction. Simulation results indicate the proposed
mechanism improved performance with TDMA over six different environments
against the SF attack that achieves the Pareto optimal DT as compared to a
non-cooperative defense mechanism.
