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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 599-606 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Communications and Networks |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 Dec |
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