Paper Info
Title
Secure group communication with self-healing and rekeying in wireless sensor networks
Abstract
We have developed a self-healing key distribution scheme for secure multicast group communications for wireless sensor network environment. We present a strategy for securely distributing rekeying messages and specify techniques for joining and leaving a group. Access control in multicast system is usually achieved by encrypting the content using an encryption key, known as the group key (session key) that is only known by the group controller and all legitimate group members. In our scheme, all rekeying messages, except for unicast of an individual key, are transmitted without any encryption using one-way hash function and XOR operation. In our proposed scheme, nodes are capable of recovering lost session keys on their own, without requesting additional transmission from the group controller. The proposed scheme provides both backward and forward secrecy. We analyze the proposed scheme to verify that it satisfies the security and performance requirements for secure group communication.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-77024-4_67
MSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
group controller,individual key,secure group communication,rekeying message,wireless sensor network,session key,legitimate group member,proposed scheme,group key,encryption key,secure multicast group communication,group communication,key distribution,access control,hash chain,satisfiability
Group key,Key distribution,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Computer network,Encryption,Secure multicast,Rekeying,Multicast,Session key,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4864
0302-9743
3-540-77023-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
0.89
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Firdous Kausar113712.79
Sajid Hussain240143.72
Jong Hyuk Park31661193.82
Ashraf Masood410910.28