A secure communication protocol for ad-hoc wireless sensor networks

Author

Pearce, Craig ; Ma, Vincent Yin-Man ; Bertok, Peter

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., R. Melbourne Inst. of Technol., Vic., Australia

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

84

Abstract

Security in wireless sensor networks is required for trust in the collected data; however, resource limitations have made the security need of secondary importance. The paper proposes a new application-layer SPKI/SDSI (simple public key infrastructure/simple distributed security infrastructure) protocol that provides secure communications, authentication and fast re-authentication. The protocol has been formally proven secure and results indicate the protocol to be suitable for wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; protocols; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; SPKI/SDSI protocol; ad-hoc networks; ad-hoc wireless sensor networks; authentication; secure communication protocol; secure communications; simple distributed security infrastructure; simple public key infrastructure; Access control; Access protocols; Authentication; Authorization; Chemical sensors; Computer security; Data security; Information security; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8894-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSNIP.2004.1417441

Filename

1417441