• DocumentCode
    2093173
  • Title

    A secure network coverage protocol of WSNs

  • Author

    Zhang, Xia ; Wang, Cheng

  • Author_Institution
    Digital Eng. & Simulation Res. Center, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-14 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1430
  • Lastpage
    1433
  • Abstract
    Wireless sensor networks(WSNs) are widely used in many applications, however in some hostile scenarios WSNs are susceptible to many malicious attacks. Due to various source limitations and salient features of WSNs, the security design for such networks is significantly challenging. we propose a secure protocol to provide current network coverage information. In contrast to previous security mechanisms, our approaches feature nearly perfect resilience to node compromise, low communication and computation overhead, low memory requirements, and high network scalability.
  • Keywords
    protocols; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; communication overhead; computation overhead; low memory requirement; malicious attack; network coverage information; network scalability; network security design; node compromise; secure network coverage protocol; wireless sensor network; Cryptography; Monitoring; Presses; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks; compromise tolerance; network coverage information; security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communication Technology (ICCT), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nanjing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6868-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCT.2010.5689006
  • Filename
    5689006