Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being used as remote monitoring and control systems in a number of industries, including health care, defense, agriculture, and disaster management. To ensure that their applications operate reliably, the requirements for the security and integrity of data have increased. Because WSNs are operating as backbone networks, there is a strong need to examine the security of these networks. However, the lack of administration infrastructure at the network level and scarce resources such as processing, power, and storage have made it challenging to find a proper security solution. Among the currently available solutions, single master key-based schemes have gained considerable popularity due to their lower communicational and computational burdens. Recent investigations have shown that these schemes have major drawbacks because of their susceptibility to attacks that involve the physical capture and tampering of nodes. If not handled properly, these attacks can compromise the network and cause a catastrophic situation. In this chapter, a new scheme is proposed: a lightweight system for key exchange and authentication. This scheme also contains countermeasures against physical capturing and tampering attacks. The results obtained from a simulation indicate that the scheme performs well with regard to the utilization of memory and power.
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Tehseen, M., Javed, H., Shah, I.H., Ahmed, S. (2019). A Lightweight Key Negotiation and Authentication Scheme for Large Scale WSNs. In: Jan, M., Khan, F., Alam, M. (eds) Recent Trends and Advances in Wireless and IoT-enabled Networks. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99966-1_21
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