An optimal class of symmetric key generation systems
Proc. of the EUROCRYPT 84 workshop on Advances in cryptology: theory and application of cryptographic techniques
A combinatorial approach to threshold schemes
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorial characterizations of authentication codes
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Combinatorial design of congestion-free networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Some New Results on Key Distribution Patterns and BroadcastEncryption
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Secure communications over insecure channels
Communications of the ACM
A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Combinatorial design of multi-ring networks with combined routing and flow control
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Perfectly-Secure Key Distribution for Dynamic Conferences
CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
On Communication Security in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
WETICE '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: nfrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks
SP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
A pairwise key pre-distribution scheme for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Establishing pairwise keys in distributed sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Efficient self-healing group key distribution with revocation capability
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Combinatorial Designs: Constructions and Analysis
Combinatorial Designs: Constructions and Analysis
Establishing Pairwise Keys for Secure Communication in Ad Hoc Networks: A Probabilistic Approach
ICNP '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Deterministic key predistribution schemes for distributed sensor networks
SAC'04 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography
Location-aware key predistribution scheme for wide area wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the fourth ACM workshop on Security of ad hoc and sensor networks
Robust key generation from signal envelopes in wireless networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
A unified security framework with three key management schemes for wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
A Computationally-Efficient Construction for the Matrix-Based Key Distribution in Sensor Network
ISA '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference and Workshops on Advances in Information Security and Assurance
TIMAR: an efficient key management scheme for ubiquitous health care environments
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
A simple non-interactive pairwise key establishment scheme in sensor networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A graph theoretic approach for optimizing key pre-distribution in wireless sensor networks
WiOPT'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
Review: Wireless sensor network key management survey and taxonomy
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Secure walking GPS: a secure localization and key distribution scheme for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Wireless network security
Securing wireless sensor networks against large-scale node capture attacks
ASIACCS '10 Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
Decentralized detector generation in cooperative intrusion detection systems
SSS'07 Proceedings of the 9h international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
Tame pool-based pairwise key predistribution for large-scale sensor networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
On the connectivity of key-distribution strategies in wireless sensor networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Noninteractive pairwise key establishment for sensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
A survey on key management mechanisms for distributed Wireless Sensor Networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on security and resilience for smart devices and applications
CollSec'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Collaborative methods for security and privacy
Key pre-distribution using partially balanced designs in wireless sensor networks
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Key management systems for sensor networks in the context of the Internet of Things
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Up-Down Links Dualpath Greedy Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Performance analysis of deterministic key allocation schemes for wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
From key predistribution to key redistribution
Theoretical Computer Science
A key-distribution mechanism for wireless sensor networks using Zig-Zag product
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
A survey and taxonomy of symmetric key management schemes for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
KALwEN: a new practical and interoperable key management scheme for body sensor networks
Security and Communication Networks
Resource-efficient authentic key establishment in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
A new class of Hash-Chain based key pre-distribution schemes for WSN
Computer Communications
Key predistribution schemes for distributed sensor networks via block designs
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
6LoWPAN fragmentation attacks and mitigation mechanisms
Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks
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Secure communications in wireless sensor networks operating under adversarial conditions require providing pairwise (symmetric) keys to sensor nodes. In large scale deployment scenarios, there is no priory knowledge of post deployment network configuration since nodes may be randomly scattered over a hostile territory. Thus, shared keys must be distributed before deployment to provide each node a key-chain. For large sensor networks it is infeasible to store a unique key for all other nodes in the key-chain of a sensor node. Consequently, for secure communication either two nodes have a key in common in their key-chains and they have a wireless link between them, or there is a path, called key-path, among these two nodes where each pair of neighboring nodes on this path have a key in common. Length of the key-path is the key factor for efficiency of the design. This paper presents novel deterministic and hybrid approaches based on Combinatorial Design for deciding how many and which keys to assign to each key-chain before the sensor network deployment. In particular, Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD) and Generalized Quadrangles (GQ) are mapped to obtain efficient key distribution schemes. Performance and security properties of the proposed schemes are studied both analytically and computationally. Comparison to related work shows that the combinatorial approach produces better connectivity with smaller key-chain sizes.