A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain

We present a suite of key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks. In view of different types of communications, a single key can not satisfy various communication requirements. It is necessary to study the establishment and renewal of different types of keys in heterogeneous sensornetwo...

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Main Authors: Tian, Biming, Han, Song, Dillon, Tharam S.
Other Authors: Xiaohua Jia
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2009
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Online Access:http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSN.2009.26
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19017
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author Tian, Biming
Han, Song
Dillon, Tharam S.
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Tian, Biming
Han, Song
Dillon, Tharam S.
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description We present a suite of key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks. In view of different types of communications, a single key can not satisfy various communication requirements. It is necessary to study the establishment and renewal of different types of keys in heterogeneous sensornetworks. In this paper, we propose a new key management scheme which can support five types of communications. Our basic scheme is based on a keyed-hash chain approach. A new cluster mechanism is used to improve the probability of key sharing between sensors and their cluster heads. Different from existing schemes where a node capture attack might lead to the disclosure of several key chains, our method can avoid this drawback through not storing network-wide generating keys inlow-cost sensors. Only pairwise keys involving the compromised node should be deleted in our scheme. It is motivated by the observation that all the information stored on a sensor may be disclosed once the sensor gets compromised. Through the analysis of both security and performance, we show the scheme meets the security requirements.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-190172022-12-09T05:23:42Z A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain Tian, Biming Han, Song Dillon, Tharam S. Xiaohua Jia Jiannong Cao keyed-hash function key predistribution heterogeneous sensor network key management We present a suite of key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks. In view of different types of communications, a single key can not satisfy various communication requirements. It is necessary to study the establishment and renewal of different types of keys in heterogeneous sensornetworks. In this paper, we propose a new key management scheme which can support five types of communications. Our basic scheme is based on a keyed-hash chain approach. A new cluster mechanism is used to improve the probability of key sharing between sensors and their cluster heads. Different from existing schemes where a node capture attack might lead to the disclosure of several key chains, our method can avoid this drawback through not storing network-wide generating keys inlow-cost sensors. Only pairwise keys involving the compromised node should be deleted in our scheme. It is motivated by the observation that all the information stored on a sensor may be disclosed once the sensor gets compromised. Through the analysis of both security and performance, we show the scheme meets the security requirements. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19017 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSN.2009.26 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle keyed-hash function
key predistribution
heterogeneous sensor network
key management
Tian, Biming
Han, Song
Dillon, Tharam S.
A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title_full A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title_fullStr A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title_full_unstemmed A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title_short A key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
title_sort key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks using keyed-hash chain
topic keyed-hash function
key predistribution
heterogeneous sensor network
key management
url http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSN.2009.26
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19017