An adaptable and scalable group access control scheme for managing wireless sensor networks

Wu, Fan; Pai, Hao-Ting; Xiang-rong, Zhu; Hsueh, Pei-Yun Sabrina; Hu, Ya-Han

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2012.03.011

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“…Further, Tsaur and Pai [16] proposed a dynamic key management mechanism using the hash-based polynomial instead of using the public-key and secret- A Secure and Scalable Group Access Control Scheme for… key, and hence, their scheme significantly reduces the communication, computation and storage overheads during the group key generation and distribution. However, in some practical scenarios, Tsaur-Pai's scheme does not prevent an impersonation attack [7]. After that, several approaches [17][18][19][20] are presented in the literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, these schemes [21,22] do not consider the access privilege with respect to nodes leaving scenario. Thus, these approaches do not provide the forward secrecy and backward secrecy in secure group communication based WSNs [7]. Moreover, Kim and Lee [23] pointed out that Huang's scheme [22] is vulnerable to replay attacks.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recently, in 2013, Wu et al [7] proposed an adaptable and scalable group access control mechanism (GAC) for managing WSNs based on advanced encryption standard (AES) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and claimed that their proposed scheme is secure against all well-known attacks including man-in-the-middle attack, and also provides the forward secrecy as well as backward secrecy. However, in this paper, we show that Wu et al's scheme [7] fails to provide the forward secrecy and backward secrecy when a node joins in a cluster or a node leaves from a cluster.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the top level of hierarchy, the task manager plays an administrator role to control the entire system. In addition, there is a large number of sensor nodes along with at least one base station in every group [6,7] as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Secure and Scalable Group Access Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Odelu

Das

Goswami

2015

Wireless Pers Commun

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Recently, in 2013, Wu et al. proposed an efficient adaptable and scalable group access control scheme (GAC) for managing wireless sensor networks and they claimed that their proposed GAC approach provides the forward secrecy and backward secrecy, and it also prevents the man-in-the-middle attack. However, in this paper, we revisit Wu et al.'s scheme and show that Wu et al.'s scheme fails to provide the forward and backward secrecy to the group access key (GAK), and also their scheme does not prevent the man-inthe-middle attack and it does not provide the mutual authentication between a node and the task manager. Moreover, in Wu et al.'s scheme, all the past GAKs used by a node can be revealed to an adversary when that node is compromised. We then aim to propose a novel group access control mechanism to withstand the security weaknesses found in Wu et al.'s scheme while retaining the original merits of their scheme. Through the rigorous informal security analysis and the formal security analysis using the widely-accepted BurrowsAbadi-Needham logic, we show that our scheme is secure against various known attacks including the attacks found in Wu et al.'s scheme. Moreover, in our scheme, the vulnerability of the GAKs used by a node is limited and bounded to the last GAK update protocol interval when that node is compromised by an adversary. Our scheme provides efficient dynamic properties such as joining and leaving of a node from a group along with high security and the required desirable features as compared to Wu et al.'s scheme, and as a result, our scheme is very suitable for the practical applications.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Secure and Scalable Group Access Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

Odelu

Das

Goswami

2015

Wireless Pers Commun

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“…Additionally, full pairwise key schemes limit scalability as addition of any new node requires change in all existing nodes of the network. A group based key management schemes [6][7] are lightweight but cannot offer a high amount of security. Trusted third party became a bottleneck and single point of failure in trusted third party based key management schemes [8][9].…”

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A Comparative Study of Key Management Protocols for WSN

Verma¹,

Ahlawat²

2014

IJCNIS

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-Increased employment of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) in real life applications and their hostile and remote locations accelerate demand of security in WSN. Publicly accessible wireless communication channel also makes WSN vulnerable to numerous security attacks. Scarcity of resources acquaints new sort of challenges and difficulties during implementation of effective security mechanisms. In this paper, we evaluate and compare performance of three different security mechanisms (ECRKS, CKP and AP scheme). ECRKS (Energy-efficient, Connected, Resilient Key pre-distribution Scheme) is based upon multi hop communication architecture specifically designed for homogeneous WSN. Clustering based protocols, AP (Asymmetric pre-distribution) scheme and CKP (Clustering based Key management Protocol) are proposed for heterogeneous WSN. All the above mentioned schemes are simulated in MATLAB to evaluate their effectiveness and suitability for WSN. Simulation result shows that CKP outperforms other two schemes in terms of transmission distance, memory burden, energy dissipation and resilience.

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