Security of Sensor Networks

Papers:

Security protocols

1.      Ross Anderson, Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, “Key infection: smart trust for smart dust,” 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 2004. [PDF]

2.      Q. Huang, J. Cukier, H. Kobayashi, B. Liu, and J. Zhang, “Fast authenticated key establishment protocols for self-organizing sensor networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), pp. 141-150, 2003. [PDF]

3.      Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, David Wagner, “TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks,” SenSys’04, November 2004. [PDF]

4.      Y. W. Law, S. O. Dulman, S. Etalle, P. J. M. Havinga, “Assessing security-critical energy-efficient sensor networks,” Proceedings on Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty(SEC), pp. 459-463, May 2003. [PDF]

5.      Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, J. D. Tygar, Victor Wen and David E. Culler, “SPINS: security protocols for Sensor Networks,” Wireless Networks, No. 8, pp. 521-534, 2002. [PDF]

a.       This paper presents a suite of security protocols optimized for sensor networks: SPINS. SPINS has two secure building blocks: SNEP and uTESLA. SNEP provides the confidentiality, authentication and evidence of data freshness for two parties. uTESLA makes the authenticated broadcast possible in sensor networks.

1.      S. Seys, and B. Preneel, “Efficient cooperative signatures: a novel authentication scheme for sensor networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3450, pp. 86-100, April 2005. [PDF]

2.      Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil Jajodia, “LEAP: efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks,” Technique Report, August 2004. [PDF]

a.       In this paper, the keys are classified into three different types: paired keys between nodes, group keys and global keys shared by all nodes in the networks.

3.      Fan Ye, Haiyun Luo, Songwu Lu, Lixia Zhang, "Statistical en-route filtering of injected false data in sensor networks," IEEE INFOCOM '04, 2004.

4.      Wehsheng Zhang, Guohong Cao, "Group rekeying for filtering false data in sensor networks: a predistribution and local collaboration-based approach," IEEE INFOCOM '05, 2005.

 

Cryptographic system

1.      W. Du, R. Wang, and P. Ning, “An Efficient scheme for authenticating public keys in sensor networks,” Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing, pp. 58-67, 2005. [PDF]

2.      G. Gaubatz, J.-P. Kaps, and B. Sunar, “Public key cryptography in sensor networks – revisited”, Proceedings of 1st European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3313, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 2-18, August 2004. [PDF]

3.      Yee Wei Law, Jeroen Doumen, Pieter Hartel, “Benchmarking block ciphers for wireless sensor networks,” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, pp. 447-456, Oct. 2004. [PDF]

a.        The performances of current mainstream symmetric block ciphers, including RC5, RC6, Rijndael, MISTY1, KASUMI and Camellia, are examined in this paper. The computational energy consumption is measured by means of CPU cycles executed per byte of plaintext processed, while the energy per instruction cycle can be theoretically derived from the current, power and clock frequency of the microprocess.

 

Key distribution

 

1.      W. Zhang, M. Tran, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. “A Compromise-Resilient Scheme for Pairwise Key Establishment in Dynamic Sensor Networks”. ACM Mobihoc 2007 [PDF] Final version has different name.

2.      Fang Liu, Xiuzhen Cheng, "A Self-Configured Key Establishment Scheme for Large-Scale Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of The Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2006), the best paper, pp.447-456, Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006. [PDF]

3.      Liran Ma, Xiuzhen Cheng, Fang Liu, Jose Rivera, Fengguang An, "iPAK: An In-Situ Pairwise Key Bootstrapping Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2006. [PDF]

4.      David J. Malan, Matt Welsh, Michael D. Smith, “A public-key infrastructure for key distribution in TinyOS based on elliptic curve cryptography,” First Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, pp. 71-80, October 2004. [PDF]

5.      S. Wander, N. Gura, H. Eberle, V. Gupta, S. C. Shantz, “Energy analysis of public-key cryptography for wireless sensor networks,” white papers, December 2004. [PDF]

Technical reports:

1.      D. Malan, “Crypto for tiny objects,” Computer Science Group, Harvard University, TR-04-04, 2004. [PDF]

This work presents the first known implementation of elliptic curve cryptography for sensor networks. It concludes that the public-key infrastructure may also be tractable in sensor networks.

 

Links:

·         WPI group on cryptography for ultra-low power devices. [LINK]

·         Security for Ad hoc Netowrk and Sensor Networks. A local copy with paper is here.

·         Sensit Project at Auburn University, AL