Title :
Distributed Node Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Zhang, Qiyuan ; Zhou, Xuehai ; Yang, Feng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China (USTC), Hefei, China
Abstract :
Authentication is necessary to not only data exchange processes but also network administrative tasks in wireless sensor networks. So far, only data authentication has drawn much attention from the research community. We propose an efficient distributed node authentication (DNA) scheme that utilizes geographic location and trust relationship among neighboring sensor nodes to authenticate the identity of sensor nodes. Analysis and simulation results demonstrate that DNA is robust against node failure/sleeping and resilient to network attackers.
Keywords :
telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; data authentication; distributed node authentication; node failure-sleeping; sensor nodes; wireless sensor networks; Analytical models; Authentication; Computer science; DNA; Failure analysis; Global Positioning System; Resilience; Robustness; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3692-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3693-4
DOI :
10.1109/WICOM.2009.5301523
