A Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks Based-On Public Key Cryptography

Author

Yao, Jianbo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Zunyi Normal Coll., Zunyi, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

It is an important challenge to find out suitable cryptography for wireless sensor networks due to limitations of energy, computation capability and storage resources. Considering this sensor feature on limitations of resources, a security architecture based-on public key cryptography is proposed. The security architecture is based on identity based cryptosystem, but not requires key handshaking. The analysis shows that the security architecture ensures a good level of security and is very much suitable for the resources constrained trend of wireless sensor network.

Keywords

public key cryptography; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; flat network topological structure; identity-based cryptosystem; key handshaking; public key cryptography; security architecture; storage resource; wireless sensor network; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Costs; Elliptic curve cryptography; Identity-based encryption; Monitoring; Peer to peer computing; Public key; Public key cryptography; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5303767

Filename

5303767