Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

The Optimum Design of Location-Dependent Key Management Protocol for a WSN With a Random Selected Cell Reporter

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Rajesh Tiwari, Dr Martin JohnstonORCiD, Yasir Al-Mathehaji

Downloads


Abstract

Wireless sensor networks for smart city applications can be widely deployed, but they can also be vulnerable to be compromised by outsider attackers. It is, therefore, critical that the disseminated information is secured in terms of its confidentiality, availability, and authenticity. Many key management schemes have been proposed to guarantee the aforementioned requirements and the most popular depend on the location of the sensor to generate the required credentials. This paper presents a new location-dependent key management protocol (LKMP), called the LKMP with random selected cell reporters (LKMP-RSCR). In this protocol, the generated report of an event must contain a third level of endorsement handled by a set of cell reporters to be accepted by the sink. As a result, the adversary needs to compromise all endorsement nodes in addition to the entire set of cell reporters to generate a fraudulent report from a specific region. A mathematical analysis is presented to evaluate the LKMP-RSCR, and in contrast to existing location-dependent end-to-end data security and MKMP schemes, our new scheme shows a significant improvement in terms of data confidentiality, authenticity, computation, and communication cost. Revocation algorithms for compromised nodes and cells are also presented to overcome the possible consequences of node compromising.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Fakhrey H, Tiwari R, Johnston M, Al-Mathehaji YA

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: IEEE Sensors Journal

Year: 2016

Volume: 16

Issue: 19

Pages: 7217-7226

Print publication date: 01/10/2016

Online publication date: 27/07/2016

Acceptance date: 18/07/2016

Date deposited: 09/11/2016

ISSN (print): 1530-437X

ISSN (electronic): 1558-1748

Publisher: IEEE

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2016.2594591

DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2016.2594591


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Share