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The constrained resources of sensors restrict the design of a key management scheme for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this work, we first formalize the security model of ALwEN, which is a gossip-based wireless medical sensor network (WMSN) for ambient assisted living. Our security model considers the node capture, the gossip-based network and the revocation problems, which should be valuable for ALwEN-like applications. Based on Shamir’s secret sharing technique, we then propose two key management schemes for ALwEN, namely the KALwEN+ schemes, which are proven with the security properties defined in the security model. The KALwEN+ schemes not only fit ALwEN, but also can be tailored to other scalable wireless sensor networks based on gossiping.
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Gong, Z., Tang, Q., Law, Y.W., Chen, H. (2011). KALwEN+: Practical Key Management Schemes for Gossip-Based Wireless Medical Sensor Networks. In: Lai, X., Yung, M., Lin, D. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology. Inscrypt 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21518-6_19
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