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As one of the most critical procedures of Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks (SDWSNs), topology control is used to maintain the global view of the network. However, the security issues of SDWSNs are still in infancy. Due to the open wireless channels, the malicious node could tamper, steal or insert the information of topology messages and then cause huge damage on the network operations. Compared with the traditional cryptography, Identity-based Cryptography (IBC) may be more suitable for SDWSNs with its ability to derive the public key from node identity directly. Specifically, an Identity-based Combined Encryption and Signature Cryptography (IBCES) can use the same identity to encrypt and sign the message. Based on IBCES, we design a neighbor discovery and secure communication mechanism using a mutual authentication scheme. And then we propose a secure topology control mechanism to protect data confidentiality, integrity and authentication during the topology collection and management processes. Finally, the security analysis indicates that our scheme meets the basic security requirements of topology messages and resists multiple attacks. The performance analysis and experiment results support that our approach is suitable for SDWSNs.
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This work was sponsored by the project of State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company Science and Technology Program No. 520615200006.
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Wang, R., Liu, D., Chen, J., Ma, L., Liu, X., Zhang, H. (2020). A Secure Topology Control Mechanism for SDWSNs Using Identity-Based Cryptography. In: Yu, D., Dressler, F., Yu, J. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12384. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59016-1_39
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