An Efficient Scheme for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abhishek Gupta; Pavan Nuggehalli; Joy Kuri

1st International IEEE Workshop on WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development

Research Article

An Efficient Scheme for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Wireless Sensor Networks

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    author={Abhishek Gupta and Pavan Nuggehalli and Joy Kuri},
    title={An Efficient Scheme for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Wireless Sensor Networks},
    proceedings={1st International IEEE Workshop on WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WISARD},
    year={2007},
    month={7},
    keywords={Cryptography  Energy capture  Flash memory  Information security  Microcontrollers  Read-write memory  Resilience  Surveillance  Temperature sensors  Wireless sensor networks},
    doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382459}
}

Abhishek Gupta
Pavan Nuggehalli
Joy Kuri
Year: 2007
An Efficient Scheme for Establishing Pairwise Keys for Wireless Sensor Networks
WISARD
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382459

Abhishek Gupta¹^,*, Pavan Nuggehalli¹^,*, Joy Kuri¹^,*

1: Centre for Electronics Design and Technology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

*Contact email: agupta@cedt.iisc.emet.in, pavan@cedt.iisc.emet.in, kuri@cedt.iisc.emet.in

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of secure path key establishment in wireless sensor networks that uses the random key pre-distribution technique. Inspired by the recent proxy-based scheme in the work of Ling and Znati (2005) and Li et al. (2005), we introduce a friend-based scheme for establishing pairwise keys securely. We show that the chances of finding friends in a neighbourhood are considerably more than that of finding proxies, leading to lower communication overhead. Further, we prove that the friend-based scheme performs better than the proxy-based scheme both in terms of resilience against node capture as well as in energy consumption for pairwise key establishment, making our scheme more feasible.

Keywords: Cryptography Energy capture Flash memory Information security Microcontrollers Read-write memory Resilience Surveillance Temperature sensors Wireless sensor networks

Published: 2007-07-09
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-26

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382459