Security approaches for cluster interconnection in a wireless sensor network

  • Authors:

  • Alexandre Gava Menezes;Carlos Becker Westphall

  • Affiliations:

  • Data Processing Center – Federal University of Santa Catarina, NPD, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil;Network and Management Laboratory – Post-Graduate Program in Computer Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • APNOMS'06 Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific international conference on Network Operations and Management: management of Convergence Networks and Services
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A wireless sensor network is a collection of devices limited in low-powered batteries, processing, communication bandwidth capabilities and low memory availability. Due to these constraints, most of security approaches used in wired networks cannot be applied directly in this environment. In this work, we present a hybrid protocol that treats the group key management scheme and the transparent cluster interconnection. The feasibility of this protocol was verified by simulation and we concluded that increasing the number of nodes in the network does not change the performance of the interconnection between any two clusters.