Diffie-Hellman key distribution extended to group communication
CCS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Communication complexity of group key distribution
CCS '98 Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Elliptic curves in cryptography
Elliptic curves in cryptography
Distributed computing: fundamentals, simulations and advanced topics
Distributed computing: fundamentals, simulations and advanced topics
Provably authenticated group Diffie-Hellman key exchange
CCS '01 Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Dynamic Group Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange under Standard Assumptions
EUROCRYPT '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques: Advances in Cryptology
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Energy-Optimal and Energy-Balanced Sorting in a Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Network
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
TOSSIM: accurate and scalable simulation of entire TinyOS applications
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Tree-based group key agreement
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
On the performance of group key agreement protocols
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Wireless sensor networks protocols for efficient collision avoidance in multi-path data propagation
PE-WASUN '04 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Public key cryptography in sensor networks—revisited
ESAS'04 Proceedings of the First European conference on Security in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
New directions in cryptography
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
A conference key distribution system
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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Wireless sensor networks are comprised of a vast number of ultra-small autonomous computing, communication and sensing devices, with restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to accomplish a large sensing task. Such networks can be very useful in practice, e.g. in the local monitoring of ambient conditions and reporting them to a control center. In this paper we propose a new lightweight, distributed group key establishment protocol suitable for such energy constrained networks. Our approach basically trade-offs complex message exchanges by performing some amount of additional local computations. The extra computations are simple for the devices to implement and are evenly distributed across the participants of the network leading to good energy balance. We evaluate the performance our protocol in comparison to existing group key establishment protocols both in simulated and real environments. The intractability of all protocols is based on the Diffie-Hellman problem and we used its elliptic curve analog in our experiments. Our findings basically indicate the feasibility of implementing our protocol in real sensor network devices and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each approach given the available technology and the corresponding efficiency (energy, time) criteria.