Efficiently reconfigurable backbones for wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
Resilient cluster leader election for wireless sensor networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
Spectrum opportunity-based control channel assignment in cognitive radio networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
SWCA: a secure weighted clustering algorithm in wireless ad hoc networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
A dynamic intrusion detection hierarchy for MANETs
SARNOFF'09 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Sarnoff symposium
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International Journal of Sensor Networks
Physiological value-based efficient usable security solutions for body sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
SAPC: a secure aggregation protocol for cluster-based wireless sensor networks
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
Adaptive security level for data aggregation in wireless sensor networks
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
A Fair and Secure Cluster Formation Process for Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Self-stabilizing (k,r)-clustering in wireless ad-hoc networks with multiple paths
OPODIS'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Principles of distributed systems
Survey Secure and reliable clustering in wireless sensor networks: A critical survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Self-stabilizing (k,r)-clustering in clock rate-limited systems
SIROCCO'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
A survivability model in wireless sensor networks
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Coordination problem in cognitive wireless mesh networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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In wireless sensor networks, clustering sensor nodes into small groups is an effective technique to achieve scalability, self-organization, power saving, channel access, routing, etc. A number of cluster formation protocols have been proposed recently. However, most existing protocols assume benign environments, and are vulnerable to attacks from malicious nodes. In this paper, we propose a secure distributed cluster formation protocol to organize sensor networks into mutually disjoint cliques. Our protocol has the following properties: (1) normal nodes are divided into mutually disjoint cliques; (2) all the normal nodes in each clique agree on the same clique memberships; (3) while external attackers can be prevented from participating in the cluster formation process, inside attackers that do not follow the protocol semantics can be identified and removed from the network; (4) the communication overhead is moderate; (5) the protocol is fully distributed.