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Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 278))

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The inherent resource constraints associated with wireless sensors make it important to minimize data transmissions within the network so that the sensor lifetime is improved and the network works for a longer period of time. Data aggregation is one such technique where data originating at different sensors is combined and transmitted together. This in-network processing of data helps in reducing the wireless communication but it also makes the task of providing security to the data much more challenging. In this chapter, we motivate, review and discuss research issues in secure data aggregation. In particular, we provide a discussion on general secure data aggregation framework and survey a few existing secure data aggregation schemes.

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    Vimal Kumar & Sanjay Madria

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  1. Department of Multimedia Engineering Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka Suita, 565-0871, Osaka, Japan

    Takahiro Hara

  2. Department of Information Science and Telecommunications School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North BellefieldAve, PA 15260, Pittsburgh, USA

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  3. Institute for Program Structures und Data Organization, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geb. 50.34 Am Fasanengarten 5, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Kumar, V., Madria, S. (2010). Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Hara, T., Zadorozhny, V.I., Buchmann, E. (eds) Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13965-9_3

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