Title
Key Management and Secure Routing in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Abstract
Key management is very critical to security protocols, as encryption and authentication services are based on the operations involving keys. In this paper, we propose a key management scheme based on random key pre-distribution for heterogeneous sensor network (HSN) to achieve better performance and security as compared to homogeneous network which suffer from high communication overhead, computation overhead, and/or high storage requirements. In a key predistribution phase, all the keys of the key pool are assigned to H-sensors and only one key of that pool is assigned to L-sensor, which significantly reduce the storage requirements while providing the full network connectivity. Further a secure routing structure is also proposed as application of our proposed key management scheme. Analysis shows that the proposed scheme is more resilient against node capture as compare to other random key distribution schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WiMob.2008.120
WiMob
Keywords
Field
DocType
heterogeneous sensor networks,homogeneous network,heterogeneous sensor network,proposed key management scheme,secure routing,random key distribution scheme,random key pre-distribution,key pool,key management scheme,full network connectivity,key management,key predistribution phase,wireless sensor networks,security protocol,cryptographic protocols,encryption,key distribution,authentication,message authentication
Key space,Key management,Key distribution,Authentication,Computer science,Computer network,Security association,Encryption,Wireless sensor network,Pre-shared key,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2160-4886
4
0.53
References 
Authors
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Firdous Kausar113712.79
Muhammad Qasim Saeed2203.64
Ashraf Masood310910.28