Title
Symmetric-Key-Based Authentication among the Nodes in a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network
Abstract
To enable today's industrial automation, a significant number of sensors and actuators are required. In order to obtain trust and isolate faults in the data collected by this network, protection against authenticity fraud and nonrepudiation is essential. In this paper, we propose a very efficient symmetric-key-based security mechanism to establish authentication and nonrepudiation among all the nodes including the gateway in a distributed cooperative network, without communicating additional security parameters to establish different types of session keys. The solution also offers confidentiality and anonymity in case there are no malicious nodes. If at most one of the nodes is compromised, authentication and nonrepudiation still remain valid. Even if more nodes get compromised, the impact is limited. Therefore, the proposed method drastically differs from the classical group key management schemes, where one compromised node completely breaks the system. The proposed method is mainly based on a hash chain with multiple outputs defined at the gateway and shared with the other nodes in the network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22041403
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
wireless sensor networks, authentication, nonrepudiation, cooperative network, anonymity, TESLA
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thibaut Vandervelden121.71
Ruben de Smet221.71
Kris Steenhaut300.34
An Braeken446853.66