Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Dynamic fine-grained localization in Ad-Hoc networks of sensors
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
SPINS: security protocols for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Denial of Service in Sensor Networks
Computer
Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks
SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Range-free localization schemes for large scale sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Secure verification of location claims
WiSe '03 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Wireless security
Privacy, economics, and price discrimination on the Internet
ICEC '03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic commerce
LEAP: efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
SIA: secure information aggregation in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
The sybil attack in sensor networks: analysis & defenses
Proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Security in wireless sensor networks
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
SeRLoc: secure range-independent localization for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless security
Resilient aggregation in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Security of ad hoc and sensor networks
TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
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
Towards resilient geographic routing in WSNs
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Quality of service & security in wireless and mobile networks
An Approach for Detecting and Distinguishing Errors versus Attacks in Sensor Networks
DSN '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Attack-resistant location estimation in sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
A performance evaluation of intrusion-tolerant routing in wireless sensor networks
IPSN'03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Comprehensible security synthesis for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Middleware for sensor networks
Information Security Applications
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest due to the range of applications they enable. Unfortunately, WSNs are exposed to numerous security threats that can adversely affect the success of important applications. Securing WSNs is challenging due to their unique nature as an application and a network, and due to their limited capabilities. In this paper, we argue that the WSN security research generally considers mechanisms that are modeled after and evaluated against abstract applications and WSN organizations. Instead, we propose that an effective solution for WSNs must be sensitive to the application and infrastructure. We propose an application-specific security context as the combination of a potential attacker驴s motivation and the WSN vulnerability. The vulnerability is a function of factors such as the sensor field, the WSN infrastructure, the application, protocols and system software, as well the accessibility and the observability of the WSN. To reduce the vulnerability, we argue that WSN design must balance traditional objectives such as energy efficiency, cost, and application level performance with security to a degree proportional to the attacker驴s motivation. We illustrate this argument via two example applications