Multicast Encryption Infrastructure for Security in Sensor Networks

Authors:
R. R. Brooks;Brijesh Pillai;Matthew Pirretti;Michele C. Weigle
Affiliations:
Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA;Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA;Computer Science and Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Venue:
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Designing secure sensor networks is difficult. We propose an approach that uses multicast communications and requires fewer encryptions than pairwise communications. The network is partitioned into multicast regions; each region is managed by a sensor node chosen to act as a keyserver. The keyservers solicit nodes in their neighborhood to join the local multicast tree. The keyserver generates a binary tree of keys to maintain communication within the multicast region using a shared key. Our approach supports a distributed key agreement protocol that identifies the compromised keys and supports membership changes with minimum system overhead. We evaluate the overhead of our approach by using the number of messages and encryptions to estimate power consumption. Using data from field tests of a military surveillance application, we show that our multicast approach needs fewer encryptions than pair-wise keying approaches. We also show that this scheme is capable of thwarting many common attacks.