A Secure Online Key Establishment Scheme for Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

Advancement in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology makes it more attractive technology to be adopted in real world applications including home and industrial automation and e-health or infrastructure monitoring. However the mobility consideration in these applications makes the security require...

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Main Authors: Sarmad Ullah Khan, Claudio Pastrone, Luciano Lavagno, Maurizio A. Spirito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-11-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/925479
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Luciano Lavagno
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description Advancement in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology makes it more attractive technology to be adopted in real world applications including home and industrial automation and e-health or infrastructure monitoring. However the mobility consideration in these applications makes the security requirements an essential and challenging task. To make the communication secure and the network robust against attacks, a proper key management scheme should be used. This paper presents a secure online key establishment and authentication scheme for mobility supported heterogeneous sensor networks. The performance evaluation of the proposed scheme is done using OMNET++ simulator while AVISPA tool is used to validate the security of the proposed scheme. It is clear from the obtained results that the proposed scheme provides better network connectivity at a low cost of memory occupation and communication overhead during the authentication and key establishment phases while improving its network resilience against attacks.
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spelling doaj-art-75ddfac975ba41f9843f892b0a7362762025-08-20T03:19:10ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772014-11-011010.1155/2014/925479925479A Secure Online Key Establishment Scheme for Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor NetworksSarmad Ullah Khan0Claudio Pastrone1Luciano Lavagno2Maurizio A. Spirito3 Electrical and Telecommunication Department, CECOS University, Peshawar, Pakistan Pervasive Technologies Research Area, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Turin, Italy Electronics and Telecommunication Department (DET), Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy Pervasive Technologies Research Area, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Turin, ItalyAdvancement in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology makes it more attractive technology to be adopted in real world applications including home and industrial automation and e-health or infrastructure monitoring. However the mobility consideration in these applications makes the security requirements an essential and challenging task. To make the communication secure and the network robust against attacks, a proper key management scheme should be used. This paper presents a secure online key establishment and authentication scheme for mobility supported heterogeneous sensor networks. The performance evaluation of the proposed scheme is done using OMNET++ simulator while AVISPA tool is used to validate the security of the proposed scheme. It is clear from the obtained results that the proposed scheme provides better network connectivity at a low cost of memory occupation and communication overhead during the authentication and key establishment phases while improving its network resilience against attacks.https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/925479
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