On the Security of Cluster-Based Communication Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Ferreira, Adrian Carlos; Vilaça, Marcos Aurélio; Oliveira, Leonardo B.; Habib, Eduardo; Wong, Hao Chi; Loureiro, Antônio A. F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-31956-6_53

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“…SecLEACH [7] is an improvement of SLEACH [6]. Hence, SecLEACH shows how a random key pre-distribution can be used for secure communication in cluster-based protocols.…”

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Efficient Group Key Management using Symmetric Key and Threshold Cryptography for Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks

Diop¹,

Qi²,

Wang³

2014

IJCNIS

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Abstract-Research in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has made a significant progress recently, especially the area of key management, which plays a central role for protecting group communication in sensor networks. In sensor networks, the data are crucial and have to keep secrecy in data communication. To achieve data confidentiality, adversary should not have access to the group communication. Therefore due to the limited memory resources and energy constraints of sensor nodes, reducing the communication and storage overhead, and improving the resilience against the node capture attack become a must.In this paper we propose An Efficient Group Key Management using Symmetric Key and Threshold Cryptography for Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks (EGKMST). The proposed scheme considers a hierarchical cluster structure of sensor network and adopts the pair-wise key management and group key management based on threshold key cryptography to generate and to distribute the keys efficiently within a cluster and updates periodically keys. By this way EGKMST provides continuous transmission security and avoids dangerous attacks from malicious nodes and mitigate the node compromise attack in WSNs communication. The security and performance analysis illustrate that EGKMST scheme achieves the requirement of group communication and provides efficient security with low communication cost, low memory overhead and energy saving compared with some existing key management schemes.

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“…SecLEACH [7] is an improvement of SLEACH [6]. Hence, SecLEACH shows how a random key pre-distribution can be used for secure communication in cluster-based protocols.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficient Group Key Management using Symmetric Key and Threshold Cryptography for Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks

Diop¹,

Qi²,

Wang³

2014

IJCNIS

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“…SLEACH [20] proposed some additions to LEACH so that it can improve protection for the network. It is suggested that each node has to have two symmetric keys: a pairwise key shared with the BS and the last key chain held by the BS.…”

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Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: Key Management Module in SOOAWSN

Abuhelaleh¹,

Elleithy²

2010

IJNSA

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“…Several clustering protocols for wireless sensor are presented in the literature [7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. While some of these protocols show a new method of partitioning the network with a view to minimize the energy consumed by the sensors [7,8,9], some others handle the security aspect [10,11,12,13] during the clustering in order to secure communications in the network.…”

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“…While some of these protocols show a new method of partitioning the network with a view to minimize the energy consumed by the sensors [7,8,9], some others handle the security aspect [10,11,12,13] during the clustering in order to secure communications in the network. However, since the WSN infrastructure is not previously defined and that the WSN is facing significant hardware constraints, it is important to always look for new mechanisms to improve existing ones.…”

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ISCP: An Instantaneous and Secure Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Bomgni

Sindjoung

Fute

et al. 2018

NPA

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A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an Ad-hoc network populated by small hand-held commodity devices, running on batteries called stations or sensors. These sensors are deployed in an area called a perception zone in order to study one or more phenomena. Generally, the perception zone is an area where access is almost impossible for humans. Given the absence of a previously defined infrastructure, deployed sensors need to organize themselves to ensure not only their connectivity but also effective management of their residual energy and the security of data that transit to them. The residual energy management is very important since we know that communications over long distances are always very energy-consuming for sensors, which most often do not have a secondary source of energy. Multi-hop communication is generally used to connect sensors in order to ensure efficient use of their energy. This being the case, multi-hop communication can be established by partitioning the network into clusters. Subsequently, network security management is also important because most WSN must circulate confidential information. In order to avoid malicious intrusions, all operations involved must be done in a secure manner. In this paper, we propose a secure clustering protocol which connects all the sensors of the network.

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On the Security of Cluster-Based Communication Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 107 publications

References 8 publications

Efficient Group Key Management using Symmetric Key and Threshold Cryptography for Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks

Efficient Group Key Management using Symmetric Key and Threshold Cryptography for Cluster based Wireless Sensor Networks

Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: Key Management Module in SOOAWSN

ISCP: An Instantaneous and Secure Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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