Energy-efficient freshness transmission protocol in wireless sensor networks

Lin He, Yiying Zhang, Chulhyun Park, Myong Soon Park

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    Abstract

    Freshness is one of the most desired security properties of sensor network communication architecture. And sequence number is a common technique that is used as a freshness identifier to achieve freshness transmission. However, due to characteristics of wireless sensor network, such as resource-constrained and attack prone, it is vulnerable and energy-expensive to transmit sequence number directly. In this paper, we propose an Energy-efficient Freshness Transmission Protocol (EFTP) which lowers overhead as well as improves the security of sensor network. In EFTP, each sequence number is disarranged via a tree-architecture and further divided into two correlative parts. Encrypted and attached to messages, sequence number can be transferred securely. The receiver reverses process of above operations to authenticate the freshness of received message. Compared with previous works, EFTP achieves the freshness requirement without any redundant overhead or keeping synchronized sequence number. Simulations show that our solution performs very well not only in freshness requirement but also in energy-efficient.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications- The 8th International Conference on Embedded Computing, ScalCom-EmbeddedCom 2009
    Pages273-278
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    EventInternational Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications- 8th International Conference on Embedded Computing, ScalCom-EmbeddedCom 2009 - Dalian, China
    Duration: 2009 Sept 252009 Sept 27

    Publication series

    NameInternational Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications - The 8th International Conference on Embedded Computing, ScalCom-EmbeddedCom 2009

    Other

    OtherInternational Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications- 8th International Conference on Embedded Computing, ScalCom-EmbeddedCom 2009
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityDalian
    Period09/9/2509/9/27

    Keywords

    • Freshness
    • Full binary tree
    • Security
    • Sequence number
    • Wireless sensor networks

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computational Theory and Mathematics
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Software

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