Path key establishment using multiple secured paths in wireless sensor networks

Guanfeng Li, Hui Ling, Taieb Znati

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Abstract

Random key Pre-distribution scheme has been proposed to overcome the memory, computation and energy limits of individual sensor in wireless sensor networks. In this scheme, a ring of keys is randomly drawn from a large key pool and assigned to a sensor. Nodes sharing common keys can communicate securely, path-key needs to be established for those nodes who do not share any common keys. However, there is no hard security guarantee for path key set up in existing protocols. In this paper, we propose two new methods to discover multiple secure proxies and a scheme to secure path key establishment using secure proxies discovered. We show both from analysis and simulation that our scheme can achieve a high level of security against node capture based on the network parameters the user has chosen, meanwhile only incurring a small amount of overhead. All path keys established in our scheme is exclusively known by two end nodes with high probability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCoNEXT 2005 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology
Pages43-49
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'05 - Toulouse, France
Duration: Oct 24 2005Oct 27 2005

Publication series

NameCoNEXT 2005 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'05
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period10/24/0510/27/05

Keywords

  • Cryptography
  • Key pre-distribution
  • Multiple path
  • Sensor network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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