Clique-based group key assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Avinash Srinivasan;Feng Li;Jie Wu;Minglu Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, PR China

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Security and Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Security has become the corner stone of research in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Watchdog-based-monitoring systems require pairwise-connectivity of group-members to avoid information asymmetry attacks. Existing group-key protocols in literature don't address this requirement. Although, pairwise-key protocols resolve this drawback, they are highly restrictive and impose substantial storage overhead. Additionally, messages encrypted with pairwise-keys render monitoring systems useless. In this paper, we propose CAGE – a novel, distributed, clique-based group-key protocol that strikes an optimal balance between pairwise-key and group-key protocols. We then present E-CAGE, an improvisation of CAGE that mitigates computation-time to achieve the same results as CAGE.