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Authors:
Rehana Yasmin
Eike Ritter
Guilin Wang
Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks; Security; ID-based One-Pass Key Establishment; User Authentication;
Abstract:
Due to resource constraints and unique features of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), designing a key establishment protocol is much harder for WSNs than for traditional wired and wireless counterparts. In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure ID-based one-pass authenticated key establishment protocol between an outside user and a sensor node. The proposed protocol does not require sensor nodes to compute any expensive pairing function. Moreover, it imposes very light computational and communication overheads and also provides scalability. We analyze security and efficiency of the proposed protocol by comparing firstly the session key establishment protocols for WSNs and secondly the existing ID-based one-pass key establishment protocols. The comparison shows that the proposed protocol is the most secure and efficient one for WSNs applications providing both security features of user authentication and session key establishment.
Pages: 340 to 347
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: August 21, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4405
ISBN: 978-1-61208-144-1
Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France
Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011