Research Article
Securing Sensor Networks by Moderating Frequencies
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_15, author={Pinaki Sarkar and Priyatosh Mahish and Morshed Chowdhury and Kouichi Sakurai}, title={Securing Sensor Networks by Moderating Frequencies}, proceedings={International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2015}, month={12}, keywords={Security of wireless sensor networks Key management schemes Radio frequency channels Magneto-optic sensors Faraday’s rotational angle}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_15} }- Pinaki Sarkar
Priyatosh Mahish
Morshed Chowdhury
Kouichi Sakurai
Year: 2015
Securing Sensor Networks by Moderating Frequencies
SECURECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_15
Abstract
Security of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a key issue in information security. Most existing security protocols exploit various Mathematical tools to strengthen their security. Some protocols use the details of the geographical location of the nodes. However, to the best authors’ knowledge, none of the existing works exploit the constraints faced by the adversary, specifically, tracing a particular frequency from a large range of unknown frequency channels. The current work uses positional details of the individual nodes. Then the aim is to exploit this weakness of tracing frequencies by assigning a wide range of frequency channels to each node. Experiments using Magneto Optic Sensors reveal that any change of the parametric Faraday’s rotational angle affects the frequency of the Optical waves. This idea can perhaps be generalized for practically deployable sensors (having respective parameters) along with a suitable key management scheme.
