A noble key pre-distribution scheme with LU matrix for secure wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Chang Won Park;Sung Jin Choi;Hee Yong Youn

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information and Communications Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea;School of Information and Communications Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea;School of Information and Communications Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • CIS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Intelligence and Security - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In wireless sensor network security is as important as performance and energy efficiency for many applications. In a recently proposed key pre-distribution scheme suitable for power and resource constrained sensor nodes, a common key is guaranteed to be found between two nodes wanting to communicate and mutual authentication is supported. However, it has a shortcoming that the time overhead is high for performing LU decomposition required in the key pre-distribution step. This paper proposes a new scheme which significantly reduce the overhead by avoiding the LU decomposition. The proposed scheme requires O(k) time complexity to find a common key while the earlier schemes of different approaches require O(k2) when there exist k keys to compare. The proposed scheme thus displays a significant improvement in the performance and energy efficiency of the sensor nodes.