Algorithm 235: Random permutation
Communications of the ACM
System architecture directions for networked sensors
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Denial of Service in Sensor Networks
Computer
Perfectly-Secure Key Distribution for Dynamic Conferences
CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
The sybil attack in sensor networks: analysis & defenses
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Distributed Detection of Node Replication Attacks in Sensor Networks
SP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Detecting Malicious Beacon Nodes for Secure Location Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks
ICDCS '05 Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Secure Distributed Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks
ACSAC '06 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Resilient Cluster Formation for Sensor Networks
ICDCS '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
SecLEACH-On the security of clustered sensor networks
Signal Processing
Adaptive security design with malicious node detection in cluster-based sensor networks
Computer Communications
On the data gathering capacity and latency wireless sensor networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special issue on simple wireless sensor networking solutions
SecDEACH: secure and resilient dynamic clustering protocol preserving data privacy in WSNs
ICCSA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
Survey Secure and reliable clustering in wireless sensor networks: A critical survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Clone wars: Distributed detection of clone attacks in mobile WSNs
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
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Sensor nodes are often organized into clusters for efficiency and scalability purposes. Every sensor cluster is managed by a cluster leader during the network operation such as routing and data aggregation. Since managing a cluster consumes substantial energy, the cluster leader needs to be re-elected from time to time for load balancing. In hostile environments, it is critical to ensure the security of such leader election. This paper proposes an efficient, resilient, and fully distributed leader election protocol for sensor networks. It only uses efficient symmetric key operations and guarantees that (i) benign cluster members will elect the same leader as long as they are well-connected, and (ii) attackers cannot impact the leader election process to increase or decrease the chance of a benign member being elected as a cluster leader. In addition, the proposed method can quickly recover from message loss or malicious attacks. The evaluation results also demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of this approach.