## 1 Introduction  
The field of wireless sensor network (WSN) devices has been growing exponentially over the last 5 years with a predicted 30.9 billion devices connected by 2025 [1]. Many important questions are being answered by the industry and research community. These include the development of protocols and technologies such as RPL [2, 3, 4] and 6 LoWPAN [5, 6] to intelligent intrusion detection solutions [7, 8, 9]. The trend of increasingly interconnected networks is likely to progress, with more serious attacks involving Internet of Things (IoT) devices predicted [10]. An example of a serious attack like this is the Mirai botnet [11]. In late 2016, it helped cement IoT devices within the security spectrum [12]. The Mirai botnet managed to clock one of the highest bandwidths of any distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since the beginning of the internet at 1.35 Tbps [13]. It has not been demonstrated within the literature that attacks like this focus on battery draining; however, there is always a possibility and attacks like this are being actively researched [14, 15, 16]. Society is currently experiencing a so-called \"industrial revolution\" of the IoT, a topic that has been heavily explored by [PERSON] et al. [17]. Devices that are part of this revolution deal within all sections of manufacturing, with the growing chance of appearing within nuclear facilities or other critical infrastructure. Some facilities currently utilising networks that implement these critical infrastructure technologies are referred to as supervisory control and data acquisition infrastructures (SCADA) [18, 19]. Popular SCADA solutions'manufacturers are known to have outdated security measures implemented within their wide area sensor networks as explored by [PERSON] et al. [20]. With the added current events in Ukraine, any possible nuclear accident is synonymous with danger. Multiple nuclear power stations are currently housed within the borders of the country, and attacks have already been launched against similar targets [21]. Similar SCADA infrastructures with known security compromises are likely to be situated worldwide. Due to the uncertain geopolitical nature of the world, increasing counts of cyber warfare are being recorded within critical industries like power, gas, and electricity [22; 23]. Within this aforementioned conflict, drone systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) infrastructures have been heavily relied on [24]. As active systems, these embedded devices rely on battery power to communicate and operate. Being standalone systems, the devices also need to communicate wirelessly and introduce many attack vectors to UAV systems and networks [25]. The work of exploring the options of such devices has been carried out by [PERSON] et al. [26], who studied low-power protocols that could be appropriate for systems of this nature. With the cyber warfare issues disclosed, devices on the IoT spectrum are often taken advantage of within networks from multiple angles. Devices are often attacked, hijacked, and formed into botnets of millions of devices [27; 28]. For example, the Mirai botnet [11] automatically compromised devices and acted as a worm, attacking more devices as it spread. Another example is the Chalubo botnet [29] which acted on a default password exploit and similarly to Mirai created a botnet. Attacks utilising these armies of machines are well known and have been used to cause chaos, sometimes being used to take down targets such as GitHub [13]. The GitHub attack has been recorded as one of the largest DoS attacks in history at over 1.35 Tbps. Similarly, an attack that targeted a hosting company which hosted the likes of Reddit, Etsy, and Spotify was also taken down in 2016 [12]. A more recent example of a DoS attack and one which shows how quickly attacks like this are increasing in complexity and power is the attack that hit Microsoft's Azure web platform in November of 2021 [30]. The attack more than doubled the throughput of the previously mentioned GitHub attack at an incredible 3.47 Tbps.