An energy-efficient access control scheme for wireless sensor networks based on elliptic curve cryptography

Xuan Hung Le, Sungyoung Lee, Ismail Butun, Murad Khalid, Ravi Sankar, Miso Kim, Manhyung Han, Young Koo Lee, Heejo Lee

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    Abstract

    For many mission-critical related wireless sensor network applications such as military and homeland security, user's access restriction is necessary to be enforced by access control mechanisms for different access rights. Public key-based access control schemes are more attractive than symmetric-key based approaches due to high scalability, low memory requirement, easy key-addition/revocation for a new node, and no key predistribution requirement. Although Wang et al. recently introduced a promising access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), it is still burdensome for sensors and has several security limitations (it does not provide mutual authentication and is strictly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks). This paper presents an energy-efficient access control scheme based on ECC to overcome these problems and more importantly to provide dominant energy-efficiency. Through analysis and simulation based evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme overcomes the security problems and has far better energy-efficiency compared to current scheme proposed by Wang et al.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)599-606
    Number of pages8
    JournalJournal of Communications and Networks
    Volume11
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009 Dec

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    The authors would like to thank the nephrologists Dr R. M. Valentijn (RKZ, The Hague), Dr P. F. Vos (Dianet, Utrecht) and Dr J. A. Bijlsma (Dianet, Amsterdam) for providing access to the patients and their valuable contribution to the project. We are also indebted to the staff of LAKS (AMC Hospital, Amsterdam) for analysing the electrolytes in saliva. Furthermore, we would like to thank Dr P. D. Bezemer (KEB, VUMC, Amsterdam) for advice with the design of this study and F. Tromp (Diasoft, Leusden) for retrieving clinical data from the Diamant® database. This study was financially supported by grants from the Dutch Kidney Foundation and The Netherlands Institute for Dental Sciences (IOT).

    Keywords

    • Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
    • Public-key cryptography
    • User access control
    • Wireless sensor networks (wsn)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Information Systems
    • Computer Networks and Communications

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