An AVL tree-based dynamic key management in hierarchical wireless sensor network

Yi Ying Zhang, Wen Cheng Yang, Kee Bum Kim, Myong Soon Park

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Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are highly vulnerable to attacks for the limitation of constrained resource and communicating via wireless links, especially running in a hostile environment such as battlefields. In such situation, an adversary may capture any node compromising critical security data including keys used for confidentiality and authentication. Consequently, it is necessary to provide security services to these networks to ensure their survival. In this paper, we present an AVL treebased dynamic key management to enhance network security and survivability. Compared to previous security solutions, the salient advantage of our work addresses challenging runtime security issues using dynamic key management scheme which is nearly realtime key renewal. The approach can efficiently protect the network against attacks of eavesdropping or captured nodes compromise, is adopted to address challenging security issues of runtime WSN. Even if the adversaries crack WSN keys, the entire network still remains safety under the timely protection of the rekey mechanism.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2008 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2008
Pages298-303
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event2008 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multiedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2008 - Harbin, China
Duration: 2008 Aug 152008 Aug 17

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2008 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2008

Other

Other2008 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multiedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period08/8/1508/8/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Signal Processing

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