Non-Manipulable Aggregator Node Election Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Michael Sirivianos; Dirk  Westhof; Frederik Armknecht; Joao Girao

5th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

Research Article

Non-Manipulable Aggregator Node Election Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480031,
    author={Michael Sirivianos and Dirk  Westhof and Frederik Armknecht and Joao Girao},
    title={Non-Manipulable Aggregator Node Election Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WIOPT},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Cryptographic protocols  Energy consumption  Energy states  Europe  Microsensors  National electric code  Nominations and elections  Peer to peer computing  Wireless application protocol  Wireless sensor networks},
    doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480031}
}

Michael Sirivianos
Dirk Westhof
Frederik Armknecht
Joao Girao
Year: 2008
Non-Manipulable Aggregator Node Election Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
WIOPT
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480031

Michael Sirivianos¹^,*, Dirk Westhof²^,*, Frederik Armknecht²^,*, Joao Girao²^,*

1: University of California, Irvine
2: NEC Europe Lt

*Contact email: msirivia@uci.edu, dirk.westhoff@netlab.nec.de, frederik.armknecht@netlab.nec.de, joao.girao@netlab.nec.de

Abstract

Aggregator nodes commonly have the ability to read, corrupt or disrupt the flow of information produced by a wireless sensor network (WSN). Despite this fact, existing aggregator node election schemes do not address an adversary that strives to influence the election process towards candidate nodes that it controls. We discuss the requirements that need to be fulfilled by a non-manipulable aggregator node election protocol. We conclude that these requirements can be satisfied by a distributed random number generator function in which no node is able to determine the output of the function. We provide and compare three protocols that instantiate such function.

Keywords: Cryptographic protocols Energy consumption Energy states Europe Microsensors National electric code Nominations and elections Peer to peer computing Wireless application protocol Wireless sensor networks

Published: 2008-03-31
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-28

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480031