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Lightweight Sharing Scheme for Data Integrity Protection in WSNs

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In wireless sensor networks, security is one of the most challenging issues. An attack against sensors or the intruder intervention in the zone of interest can deny the integrity of the exchanged data between the sensors and the base station. In this paper, we propose a technique of data integrity protection using a novel method of shared cryptography for wireless sensor networks. Our proposal considers a cluster-based network. Sensor nodes belonging to a cluster are supervised by a cluster-head. The latter aggregates securely the sensed data and transmits them to the base station. Before sending the sensed data to the cluster-head, the sensor nodes encrypt partially the message using a shared cryptography protocol. The cluster-head reconstitutes the message in order to authenticate the integrity of the transmitted data. We have developed simulations, in which the obtained results show the performances of our protocol in terms of communication overhead and energy consumption.

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Acknowledgments

This work was carried out in the framework of research activities of the laboratory LIMED, which is affiliated to the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the University of Bejaia. It was done in collaboration with the Labex MS2T, which was funded by the French Government, through the program “Investments for the future” managed by the National Agency for Research (Reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02).

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique Médicale, Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Université de Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algérie

    Feriel Bouakkaz, Mawloud Omar, Souad Laib, Lilia Guermouz & Abdelkamel Tari

  2. Heudiasyc UMR 7253, CNRS, Université de technologie de Compiegne, Sorbonne universités, CS 60 319, 60 203, Compiegne Cedex, France

    Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah

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Bouakkaz, F., Omar, M., Laib, S. et al. Lightweight Sharing Scheme for Data Integrity Protection in WSNs. Wireless Pers Commun 89, 211–226 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3261-5

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