An efficient key distribution scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks
IWCMC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
Scalable and efficient key management for heterogeneous sensor networks
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EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging direction in embedded and ubiquitous computing
A key distribution scheme preventing collusion attacks in ubiquitous heterogeneous sensor networks
EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging direction in embedded and ubiquitous computing
An improved key management scheme for heterogeneity wireless sensor networks
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International Journal of Sensor Networks
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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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In a wireless sensor network (WSN), pre-distribution of secret keys is possibly the most practical approach to protect network communications. To meet the stringent resource constraints of the sensor nodes, key pre-distribution schemes should be highly efficient, require as little storage space as possible, and at the same time, maintain a strong security strength, that is, high resilience against node capture. In this paper, a new approach for random key pre-distribution is proposed to achieve both efficiency and security goals. The novelty of this approach lies in that, instead of using a key pool consisting of random keys, a key generation technique is carefully designed such that a large number of random keys can be represented by a small number of key-generation keys. Then, instead of storing a big number of random keys, each sensor node stores a small number of key-generation keys while computing the shared secret keys during the bootstrapping phase on the fly using the computationally efficient hash function. The proposed scheme outperforms the previous random key pre-distribution schemes in that it reduces the storage requirement significantly while holding the comparable security strength, as shown by our thorough analysis and simulation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.