A key management scheme for wireless sensor networks using deployment knowledge Export

@proceedings{infocom04-du-key, abstract = {To achieve security in wireless sensor networks, it is important to he able to encrypt messages sent among sensor nodes. Keys for encryption purposes must he agreed upon by communicating nodes. Due to resource constraints, achieving such key agreement in wireless sensor networks is nontrivial. Many key agreement schemes used in general networks, such as Diffie-Hellman and public-key based schemes, are not suitable for wireless sensor networks. Pre-distribution of secret keys for all pairs of nodes is not viable due to the large amount of memory used when the network size is large. Recently, a random key pre-distribution scheme and its improvements have been proposed. A common assumption made by these random key pre-distribution schemes is that no deployment knowledge is available. Noticing that in many practical scenarios, certain deployment knowledge may be available a priori, we propose a novel random key pre-distribution scheme that exploits deployment knowledge and avoids unnecessary key assignments. We show that the performance (including connectivity, memory usage, and network resilience against node capture) of sensor networks can he substantially improved with the use of our proposed scheme. The scheme and its detailed performance evaluation are presented in this paper.}, author = {Du, Wenliang and Deng, Jing and Han, Y. S. and Chen, Shigang and Varshney, P. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {523949}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354530}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1354530}, doi = {10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354530}, journal = {INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies}, keywords = {key-management, sensor}, pages = {597}, posted-at = {2006-02-28 03:28:46}, priority = {2}, title = {A key management scheme for wireless sensor networks using deployment knowledge}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354530}, volume = {1}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - infocom04-du-key L3 - citeulike-article-id:523949 N2 - To achieve security in wireless sensor networks, it is important to he able to encrypt messages sent among sensor nodes. Keys for encryption purposes must he agreed upon by communicating nodes. Due to resource constraints, achieving such key agreement in wireless sensor networks is nontrivial. Many key agreement schemes used in general networks, such as Diffie-Hellman and public-key based schemes, are not suitable for wireless sensor networks. Pre-distribution of secret keys for all pairs of nodes is not viable due to the large amount of memory used when the network size is large. Recently, a random key pre-distribution scheme and its improvements have been proposed. A common assumption made by these random key pre-distribution schemes is that no deployment knowledge is available. Noticing that in many practical scenarios, certain deployment knowledge may be available a priori, we propose a novel random key pre-distribution scheme that exploits deployment knowledge and avoids unnecessary key assignments. We show that the performance (including connectivity, memory usage, and network resilience against node capture) of sensor networks can he substantially improved with the use of our proposed scheme. The scheme and its detailed performance evaluation are presented in this paper. JF - INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies EP - 597 TI - A key management scheme for wireless sensor networks using deployment knowledge VL - 1 KW - key-management KW - sensor AU - Du, Wenliang AU - Deng, Jing AU - Han, YS AU - Chen, Shigang AU - Varshney, PK PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1354530 ER -