ISSN Retrieval Number Wireless Sensor Networks wireless sensor networks Internet of Things Network Security Security Simulation models Statistical En-route Filtering Network Protocols Discrete Event System Specification False positive attacks False report injection attack Femtocell Forced Latency Interlock Protocol Interleaved Hop-by-hop Authentication Interlock Protocol Internet of things IoT MQTT Man in the Middle SSL/TLS Wireless sensor networks; Wireless network security; Probabilistic voting-based scheme; Genetic algorithm; False negative attacks autonomous vehicles discrete event systems specification formalism energy efficiency false report injection attacks false vote injection attacks fuzzy system internet of things message authentication modeling and simulation multiple attacks detection node energy efficiency management system node privacy message node state data security probabilistic voting-based scheme security service threshold analysis wormhole attacks