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Sensor networks offer economically viable solutions for a wide variety of monitoring applications. In surveillance of critical infrastructure such as airports by sensor networks, security becomes a major concern. To resist against malicious attacks, secure communication between severely resource-constrained sensor nodes is necessary while maintaining scalability and flexibility to topology changes. A robust security solution for such networks must facilitate authentication of sensor nodes and the establishment of secret keys among nodes In this paper, we propose a decentralized authentication and key management framework for hierarchical ad hoc sensor networks. This scheme is light weight and energy aware and reduces the communication overhead.
This research has been supported in part by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant (DP0452628) and a Macquarie University Research Development Grant (MQRDG).
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Zhang, J., Shankaran, R., Orgun, M.A., Sattar, A., Varadharajan, V. (2012). A Dynamic Authentication Scheme for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Sénac, P., Ott, M., Seneviratne, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29154-8_16
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