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A Secure and Verifiable Continuous Data Collection Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Data collection is a key operation in wireless sensor networks. In view of the privacy-preserving problem of the existing data collection schemes, this paper proposes a secure and verifiable continuous data collection algorithm (SVCDC) in wireless sensor networks. Taking the temporal correlation of sensory data into consideration, SVCDC reconstructs multiple sensory data in one period, which can effectively decrease data traffic, and then by encrypting the reconstructed data, SVCDC ensures the privacy of the sensory data. In addition, in SVCDC, the “fingerprint” of sensory data is generated, aggregated and transmitted to Sink. Then, Sink extracts the “fingerprint”, which ensures the verification of the integrity and timeliness of each node’s sensory data and the detections of attack such as replaying or discarding data. Since the “fingerprint” is aggregated and much shorter than the original data, the communication cost of “fingerprint” is low. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that SVCDC has advantages in traffic.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61972438, 61672039, 61572036, 61871412, 61402014); Key Research and Development Projects in Anhui Province (202004a05020002); CERNET Next Generation Internet Creative Project of China (NGII20170312, NGII20170305); Anhui Normal University Ph.D. Startup Fund (2018XJJ66); Anhui Normal University Innovation Fund (2018XJJ114).

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    Taochun Wang, Chengmei Lv, Xin Jin, Fulong Chen & Chengtian Wang

  2. Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Network and Information Security, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241002, Anhui, China

    Taochun Wang, Chengmei Lv, Xin Jin, Fulong Chen & Chengtian Wang

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Wang, T., Lv, C., Jin, X. et al. A Secure and Verifiable Continuous Data Collection Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 119, 2265–2285 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08330-5

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