Title :
SenseKey -- Simplifying the Selection of Key Management Schemes for Sensor Networks
Author :
Roman, Rodrigo ; Lopez, Javier ; Alcaraz, Cristina ; Chen, Hsiao-Hwa
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Abstract :
Key Management Schemes (KMS) are a very important security mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), as they are used to manage the credentials (i.e. secret keys) that are needed by the security primitives. There is a large number of available KMS protocols in the literature, but it is not clear what should network designers do to choose the most suitable protocol for the needs of their applications. In this paper, we consider that given a certain set of application requirements, the network designer can check which properties comply with those requirements and select the KMS protocols that contains those particular properties. Therefore, we study the relationship between requirements and properties, and we provide a web tool, the Sense Key tool, that can be used to automatically obtain an optimal set of KMS protocols.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; software tools; telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; KMS protocols; Sense Key tool; Web tool; application requirement; credential management; key management scheme; network designer; secret key; security mechanism; security primitive; wireless sensor networks; Memory management; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Resilience; Scalability; Security; Wireless sensor networks; Key Management; Security; Sensor Network;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications (WAINA), 2011 IEEE Workshops of International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Biopolis
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4338-3
DOI :
10.1109/WAINA.2011.78
