An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures: Implementation and Evaluation

R Yasmin, Eike Ritter, G Wang

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Abstract

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), authentication is a crucial security requirement to avoid attacks against secure communication, and to mitigate against DoS attacks exploiting the limited resources of sensor nodes. Resource constraints of sensor nodes are hurdles in applying strong public key cryptographic based mechanisms in WSNs. To address the problem of authentication in WSNs, we propose an efficient and secure framework for authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes as well as for outside user authentication, which utilizes identity based cryptography and online/offline signature (OOS) schemes. The primary goals of this framework are to enable all sensor nodes in the network, firstly, to broadcast and/or multicast an authenticated message quickly; secondly, to verify the broadcast/multicast message sender and the message contents; and finally, to verify the legitimacy of an outside user. This paper reports the implementation and experimental evaluation of the previously proposed authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes scheme using online/offline signature on TinyOS and MICA2 sensor nodes.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)126-133
Number of pages8
JournalIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
VolumeE95D
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012

Keywords

  • authentication
  • wireless sensor network
  • online/offline signatures

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