A routing-driven key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks

Xiaojiang Du, Song Ci, Yang Xiao, Mohsen Guizani, Hsiao Hwa Chen

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Abstract

The many-to-one traffic pattern dominates in sensor networks, where a large number of sensor nodes send data to one sink. A sensor node may only communicate with a small portion of its neighbors. Most existing key management schemes for sensor networks are designed to establish shared keys for all pairs of neighbor sensors, no matter whether they communicate with each other or not, and this causes large overhead. To achieve better security and performance, we adopt a Heterogeneous Sensor Network (HSN) model. In this paper, we propose a novel routing-driven key management scheme, which only establishes shared keys for neighbor sensors that may communicate with each other. Recent work has demonstrated the feasibility of implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography on small sensor nodes. We utilize Elliptic Curve Cryptography to design an efficient key management scheme for HSN. The performance evaluation and security analysis show that our key management scheme can provide better security with significant saving on sensor storage space and energy consumption than some existing key management schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'07
Pages3407-3412
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'07 - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Duration: 2007 Jun 242007 Jun 28

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)0536-1486

Other

Other2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'07
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow, Scotland
Period07-06-2407-06-28

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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