SSL-Based Lightweight Security of IP-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Jung, Wooyoung ; Hong, Sungmin ; Ha, Minkeun ; Kim, Young-Joo ; Kim, Daeyoung

Author_Institution

Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol.

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 May 2009

Firstpage

1112

Lastpage

1117

Abstract

IP-based wireless sensor networks (IP-WSN) are popularly recognized as a global sensor networks infrastructure by combining IPv6 technology with wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, IP-WSN, currently, does not provide security because it is commonly recognized that it is a big burden for IP-WSN to adapt Internet´s dominant security protocol. We suggest a security protocol for IP-WSN based on secure sockets layer (SSL). We have developed IP-WSN sensor node hardware with 16-bit MSP430 MCU including 116 KB Flash and 8 KB RAM, and implemented IP-WSN software stack and lightweight SSL components. The resource consumption is around 64 KB of Flash and 7 KB of RAM when it is used that ECC for key-exchange and authentication, RC4 for data encryption, and MD5 for hashing. And it takes total 2 s for a full SSL handshake and a 127 bytes packet transfer. It can make IP-WSN secure and be used for the public and private services such as military observation, healthcare, and home-network.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; protocols; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; IP-WSN software stack; IP-based wireless sensor networks; IPv6 technology; Internet dominant security protocol; SSL-based lightweight security; data encryption; elliptic curve cryptosystem; secure sockets layer; Access protocols; Authentication; Data security; Elliptic curve cryptography; Information security; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Read-write memory; Sockets; Wireless sensor networks; 6LoWPAN; IP-WSN; SSL; Sensor Networks Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2009. WAINA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bradford

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3999-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3639-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2009.47

Filename

5136800