RiSeG: A logical ring based secure group communication protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

It is worth noting that securing group communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has recently been extensively investigated. Although many works have addressed this problem, they have considered the concept of grouping differently. In this paper, we consider a group as being a set of nodes sensing the same type of data and we alternatively propose an efficient secure group communication scheme that enables group management and secure group key distribution. The proposed scheme is based on a logical ring architecture, which permits to alleviate the task of the group controller in maintaining the group key. The proposed scheme also provides backward and forward secrecy, addresses the node compromise attack and gives solution to detect and eliminate the compromised nodes. Finally, our implementation shows that the proposed scheme is highly efficient and secure.

LNT: A logical neighbor tree secure group communication scheme for wireless sensor networks

“…The idea of secure group communication with resourceconstrained group controller was first addressed by Cheikhrouhou et al in their paper RiSeG [8,9]. Yet, the proposed scheme presents an O(n) latency in the rekeying process and, therefore, cannot endure large scale WSNs.…”

“…As shown in Fig. 12, ED: 3Á(C dec + C verif ) RiSeG [8,9] GC: nÁjIDj + (t + 1)Álog(q) + T + (d G , Q G ) ED: 2ÁjIDj + (t + 1)Álog(q) + T + Q G GC: C kg + C enc + C sign ED: C dec + C verif GC: C kg + 2C kc + 2C enc + C sign ED: 2C kc + C enc + C dec + C verif LNT GC: nÁjIDj + (t + 1)Álog(q) + Private/public key ED: dÁjIDj + (t + 1)Álog(q) + GC public key.…”

“…As in [9], we propose to apply the key pre-distribution scheme proposed by Blundo et al [13] in order to share a symmetric key between each pair of nodes. The network administrator chooses a t degree bi-variate polynomial over a finite field F q : f ðx; yÞ ¼ P i¼t i¼0 P j¼t j¼0 a i;j x i y j .…”

“…RiSeG [8,9] is the first scheme that has addressed the secure group communication problem with a constrained group controller. The idea of the scheme is to divide the group controller task among group members by constructing a logical ring architecture.…”

“…TKH [5] is a group rekeying scheme that uses the concept of matching the physical topology to the logical key hierarchy. RiSeG [9,8] is a secure group communication that uses the concept of logical ring topology.…”