Title :
Multi-sender Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author :
Ya Gao ; Peng Zeng ; Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Key Lab. of Trustworthy Comput., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Broadcast authentication, a fundamental feature in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), enables users to broadcast to multiple sensor nodes in an authenticated way. Symmetric-key-based μTESLA-like schemes are a popular solution due to their energy efficiency, but most schemes are not scalable (e.g. in terms of the number of senders). On the other hand, several schemes based on public key cryptography (PKC) are proposed to secure the multi-user broadcast in WSNs. However, the computation and communication overheads in the underlying PKC infrastructure restrict its implementation in resource-constrained WSNs. This paper presents an efficient scheme, which supports multi-sender broadcast authentication and allows dynamic addition of new senders. We delay disclosing the keys of the master key chain generated by the base station to authenticate the commitment of each sender´s key chain. Considering that senders may be captured and compromised by adversaries in a hostile environment, our scheme also provides a mechanism to revoke the compromised senders´ broadcast authentication capability.
Keywords :
broadcast communication; cryptographic protocols; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; PKC; base station; master key chain; multiple sensor nodes; multisender broadcast authentication; multiuser broadcast; public key cryptography; resource-constrained WSN; symmetric-key-based μTESLA-like schemes; wireless sensor networks; Authentication; Base stations; Delays; Protocols; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; broadcast authentication; multi-sender; wireless;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS), 2014 Tenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kunming
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7433-7
DOI :
10.1109/CIS.2014.147