4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Research Article

The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing in 802.15.4 Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577262,
        author={Jelena Misic and Vojislav B. Misic},
        title={The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing in 802.15.4 Networks},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and  Robustness},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1145/1577222.1577262}
    }
    
  • Jelena Misic
    Vojislav B. Misic
    Year: 2007
    The Cost of Secure and Reliable Sensing in 802.15.4 Networks
    QSHINE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577262
Jelena Misic1,*, Vojislav B. Misic1,*
  • 1: University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada
*Contact email: jmisic@cs.umanitoba.ca, vmisic@cs.umanitoba.ca

Abstract

In this paper, we consider interconnected IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled clusters with secure and reliable sensing. Each cluster has to contribute constant number of packets per second to the sink. Packets are protected with Message Authentication Code which requires secret key to be shared between each node and coordinator. We consider generic key exchange protocol with arbitrary complexity and periodic key update. Bridges between the clusters are implemented on cluster coordinators and participate in key exchange as regular nodes when they visit foreign cluster. We evaluate impact of complexity of key exchange protocol and level of event sensing reliability on the network lifetime.