H-SPREAD: A Hybrid Multipath Scheme for Secure and Reliable Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Abstract-Communication security and reliability are two important issues in any network. A typical communication task in a wireless sensor network is for every sensor node to sense its local environment and, upon request, sends data of interest back to a base station. In this paper, we propose a hybrid multipath scheme (H-SPREAD) to improve both security and reliability of this task in a potentially hostile and unreliable wireless sensor network. The new scheme is based on a distributed N-to-1 multipath discovery protocol which is able to find multiple node-disjoint paths from every sensor node to the base station simultaneously in one route discovery process. Then, a hybrid multipath data collection scheme is proposed. On the one hand, end-to-end multipath data dispersion, combined with secret sharing, enhances the security of end-to-end data delivery in the sense that the compromise of a small number of paths will not result in the compromise of a data message in the face of adversarial nodes. On the other hand, in the face of unreliable wireless links and/or sensor nodes, alternate path routing available at each sensor node improves reliability of each packet transmission significantly. The extensive simulation results show that our hybrid multipath scheme is very efficient in improving both security and reliability of the data collection service seamlessly.

Secure Authentication Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks with Load-Balancing Routing Protocol

“…This scheme is very efficient in improving both security and reliability of the data collection service flawlessly. [17] III.…”

Energy-efficient and reliable data collection in wireless sensor networks

“…The first major contributions to the secure reliable data collection of sensor networks started with H-SPREAD in [8], which used Samir's secret sharing (SSS) scheme to generate multiple shares of the data. Additionally, a hybrid multipath scheme was used to route the shares.…”

“…With advances in technology, today's sensor nodes can gather and process more data, leading to the creation of new applications in recent years. To achieve cost effectiveness, sensor nodes are not typically equipped with tamper-proof facilities [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Due to their hostile and unattended environment, there is a very high chance of nodes being compromised in a WSN.…”

Robust Path Construction for Reliable Data Transmissions in Node Disjoint Multipath Routing

“…H-SPREAD [23] recognizes a multipath extension flooding stage, where nodes from diverse branches swap the found paths. Consequently, it finds more disjoint paths at the cost of extra messages exchange, by breaking the property of utilizing "one message per node''.…”