Establishing Pairwise Keys in Heterogeneous Two-Tiered Wireless Sensor Networks

Boujelben, Maissa; Cheikhrouhou, Omar; Abid, Mohamed; Youssef, Habib

doi:10.1109/sensorcomm.2009.73

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“…We will prove that our proposal is both secure and energy efficient by comparing with the schemes of LEKM [16], AP [17], and Boujelben's scheme [18].…”

Section: Security and Performance Analysismentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Boujelben et al proposed an "Establishing pairwise keys in heterogeneous two-tiered wireless sensor networks" in 2009 [18] (denoted as EPKH scheme). The Identity based cryptography was applied at inter-cluster tier, and a kind of unbalanced key distribution method combined with Blom's scheme [10] was proposed at the intra-cluster tier.…”

Section: B Contribution Of This Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Key Sharing in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Liu

Wang

et al. 2010

2010 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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Hierarchical wireless sensor networks (HSNs) have been widely used in many applications, especially in military areas. They usually consist of different types of nodes and behave better in performances and reliability than traditional flat wireless sensor networks (FSNs). In this paper, a novel key pre-distribution scheme is proposed for a three-tier HSN. Shamir's secret sharing technique is implemented in intracluster pairwise key establishment. Compared with existing key management schemes, our scheme guarantees a fully connected network with less storage requirement and communication overhead of sensors. Besides, it substantially improves the network resilience against nodes capture attack and collusion attack.

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“…We will prove that our proposal is both secure and energy efficient by comparing with the schemes of LEKM [16], AP [17], and Boujelben's scheme [18].…”

Section: Security and Performance Analysismentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: B Contribution Of This Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

Key Sharing in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Liu

Wang

et al. 2010

2010 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing

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“…However, the computation increases drastically consuming a large amount of energy, reducing the efficiency of WSNs. Boujelben et al, (Manel Boujelben and Youssef, 2009) have proposed a pairwise Key Management protocol that is applied to two tiered Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. They have proposed probabilistic key predistribution which is used in the lower tier of the network architecture and public key cryptography in the upper tier.…”

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confidence: 99%

Kcsr: Keymatches Constrained Secure Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Shaila¹,

Vineet²,

Prashanth³

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consists of a large number of tiny autonomous devices called sensors which are vulnerable to security threats. Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks consists of two types of nodes L1 and L2 that employees Unbalanced Key Distribution Scheme to ensure enhanced security. In this paper, the concept of Link Strength is utilized, which determines the path to be selected for secure routing. Our Keymatches Constrained Secure Routing(KCSR) algorithm provides the flexibility to choose secure path and then route the data accordingly. In this approach, secure and stable paths are chosen for communication. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm yields better results emphasizing security when compared with earlier works.

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“…In this context, either centralized or distributed solutions can be used. Centralized approaches, like those presented in [14]- [16], suppose the use of a dedicated entity for generating, distributing, and managing keys. In distributed techniques, instead, each couple of nodes negotiate key materials autonomously, as discussed in [17]- [23].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Note that distributed mechanisms presented in [17]- [20], [23], and presented before, are based on symmetric key encryption schemes. Further distributed approaches use asymmetric strategies, based on the usage of public key cryptography [10] [14][23] [24].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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LICITUS: A lightweight and standard compatible framework for securing layer-2 communications in the IoT

et al. 2016

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With reference to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, many solutions have been formulated to face the different facets of layer-2 security. Unfortunately, the opportunities and subtleties arising from their joint adoption has been not investigated, due to the lack of an integrating framework. To this end, hereby a novel standard compatible framework is proposed, which is able to orchestrate several layer-2 security mechanisms with a limited computational footprint. Conceived as a distributed scheme, it covers the following key features: (i) multiple security configurations in homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios; (ii) adaption to dynamic networks; (iii) lean and scalable initialization functionalities; (iv) lightweight Key Management Protocol; and (v) resilience to several attacks. The robustness against security attacks have been evaluated through a wellknown automatic cryptographic protocol verifier, namely ProVerif. Moreover, to further demonstrate its effectiveness, the proposed framework has been implemented within the emerging OpenWSN protocol stack, experimentally evaluated, and compared with respect to the ZigBee IP security architecture, which integrates the Symmetric Key-Key Establishment protocol (SKKE). Results clearly show that, although security features in constrained nodes incur not negligible computational costs (which impair latencies and energy efficiency), the proposed approach always guarantees better performances with respect to the ZigBee IP security architecture. In fact, it speeds up the configuration of

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Establishing Pairwise Keys in Heterogeneous Two-Tiered Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Key Sharing in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Key Sharing in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Kcsr: Keymatches Constrained Secure Routing in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

LICITUS: A lightweight and standard compatible framework for securing layer-2 communications in the IoT

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