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Collaborative authentication in unattended WSNs

Authors:

Roberto Di Pietro,

Claudio Soriente,

Angelo Spognardi,

Gene TsudikAuthors Info & Claims

WiSec '09: Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security

Pages 237 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/1514274.1514307

Published: 16 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

An unattended wireless sensor network (UWSN) might collect valuable data representing an attractive target for the adversary. Since a sink visits the network infrequently, unattended sensors cannot immediately off-load data to some safe external entity. With sufficient time between sink visits, a powerful mobile adversary can easily compromise sensor-collected data.

In this paper, we propose two schemes (CoMAC and ExCo) that leverage sensor co-operation to achieve data authentication. These schemes use standard (and inexpensive) symmetric cryptographic primitives coupled with key evolution and few messages exchange. We provide security analysis for proposed schemes and assess their effectiveness via simulations. We show that proposed schemes cope well with real WSN issues, such as message loss and sensor failure. We also compare the two schemes with respect to robustness and overhead, which allows network designers to carefully select the right scheme and tune appropriate system parameters.

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Collaborative authentication in unattended WSNs
1. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks
2. Security and privacy
  1. Security services
    1. Authentication

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WiSec '09: Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security

March 2009

280 pages

ISBN:9781605584607

DOI:10.1145/1514274

General Chair:
David Basin
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Wenke Lee
Georgia Tech, USA

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