Evolutionary design of message efficient secrecy amplification protocols

  • Authors:
  • Tobiáš Smolka;Petr Švenda;Lukáš Sekanina;Vashek Matyáš

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic;FIT, IT4Innovations Centre, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • EuroGP'12 Proceedings of the 15th European conference on Genetic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Secrecy amplification protocols are mechanisms that can significantly improve security of partially compromised wireless sensor networks (e.g., turning a half-compromised network into the 95% secure one). The main disadvantage of existing protocols is a high communication overhead increasing exponentially with network density. We devise a novel family of these protocols exhibiting only a linear increase of the communication overhead. The protocols are automatically generated by linear genetic programming (LGP) connected to a network simulator. After a deep analysis of various characteristics of this new family of protocols, with a special focus on the tuning of LGP parameters, new and better group-oriented protocols are discovered by LGP. A multi-criteria optimization is then utilized to further reduce the communication overhead down to 1/2 of the original amount while maintaining the original fraction of secure links.