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A group-based security scheme for wireless sensor networks

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In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been a very popular research topic, offering a treasure trove of systems, networking, hardware, security, and application-related problems. Distributed nature and their deployment in remote areas, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect their proper functioning. The problem is more critical if its purpose is for some mission-critical applications such as in a tactical battlefield. This paper presents a security scheme for group-based distributed wireless sensor networks. Our first goal is to devise a group-based secure wireless sensor network. We exploit the multi-line version of matrix key distribution technique and Gaussian distribution to achieve this goal. Secondly, security mechanisms are proposed for such a group-based network architecture in which sensed data collected at numerous, inexpensive sensor nodes are filtered by local processing on its way through more capable and compromise-tolerant reporting nodes. We address the upstream requirement that reporting nodes authenticate data produced by sensors before aggregating and the downstream requirement that sensors authenticates commands disseminated from reporting nodes. Security analysis is presented to quantify the strength of the proposed scheme against security threats. Through simulations, we validate the analytical results.

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  1. Department of Information & Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Kyounggi-do, 449-791, South Korea

    Md. Abdul Hamid

  2. Department of Digital Information Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Kyounggi-do, 449-791, South Korea

    A. M. Jehad Sarkar

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Hamid, M.A., Sarkar, A.M.J. A group-based security scheme for wireless sensor networks. Ann. Telecommun. 67, 455–469 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-011-0278-3

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