Title
STEF: A Secure Ticket-Based En-route Filtering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Node compromise is a serious threat in wireless sensor networks. An adversary can use compromised nodes to inject false data into the network forging events to deceive the base station. Furthermore, an adversary can cause serious damage by injecting a large amount of false messages to deplete the scarce energy resources of the forwarding en-route sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose a secure ticket-based en-route filtering scheme (STEF) that drops false messages en-route. We propose a ticket concept where reply messages are only forwarded if they contain a valid ticket originally issued by the base station. Messages containing no ticket, or an replayed ticket, are immediately filtered out by not compromised sensor nodes. The ticket concept is based on lightweight one-way functions. This enables every en-route node to verify the tickets. Furthermore, our scheme does not need symmetric key sharing between message generating nodes and en-route nodes, which results in a high resiliency against node compromises. Our security and performance analysis shows that STEF provides a high security level and is very efficient in saving energy. Furthermore, the required storage capacity on the sensor nodes is very low
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ARES.2007.144
Vienna
Keywords
Field
DocType
index terms— wireless sensor networks,pdos attack,sensor node,wireless sensor network,node compromise,ticket concept,security,valid ticket,false message,replayed ticket,false data injection,secure ticket-based en-route filtering,en-route node,forwarding en-route sensor node,base station,wireless sensor networks,en-route filtering,data security,indexing terms,filtering,patient monitoring,message authentication,base stations,spread spectrum communication,one way function
Symmetric-key algorithm,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Base station,Data security,Route filtering,Message authentication code,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Ticket,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2775-2
24
0.85
References 
Authors
21
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christoph Kraub1240.85
Markus Schneider2626.33
Kpatcha Bayarou3311.31
Claudia Eckert41086.18