Title :
Evaluation of key distribution protocols for use with wireless sensor networks
Author :
Möller, Stefan ; Newe, Thomas ; Lochmann, Steffen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Limerick, Limerick
Abstract :
Advances in wireless sensor networks (WSN) have opened up new opportunities and many applications. To achieve security in these kinds of networks, it is important to encrypt messages. This requires the use of key distribution protocols. Due to resource constraints, achieving such key distribution in WSN´s is not trivial. We evaluate deterministic, probabilistic and hybrid key distribution algorithms for distributing pairwise, group wise and network wise keys.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; wireless sensor networks; encrypt message; key distribution protocol; wireless sensor network; Application software; Energy consumption; Energy resources; Interference; Public key; Public key cryptography; Synthetic aperture sonar; USA Councils; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors Applications Symposium, 2009. SAS 2009. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2786-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2787-1
DOI :
10.1109/SAS.2009.4801770
