MUQAMI+: A scalable and locally distributed key management scheme for clustered sensor networks

Muhammad Khaliq Ur Rahman Raazi Syed, Heejo Lee, Sungyoung Lee, Young Koo Lee

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    Abstract

    Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are susceptible to node capture and many network levels attacks. In order to provide protection against such threats, WSNs require lightweight and scalable key management schemes because the nodes are resource-constrained and high in number. Also, the effect of node compromise should be minimized and node capture should not hamper the normal working of a network. In this paper, we present an exclusion basis system-based key management scheme called MUQAMI+ for large-scale clustered sensor networks. We have distributed the responsibility of key management to multiple nodes within clusters, avoiding single points of failure and getting rid of costly inter-cluster communication. Our scheme is scalable and highly efficient in terms of re-keying and compromised node revocation.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)101-116
    Number of pages16
    JournalAnnales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications
    Volume65
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010 Feb

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Acknowledgements This research was supported by the MKE (Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Advancement) (IITA-2009-(C1090-0902-0002)). This work also, was supported by the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2008-1342), and was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2009-0076798). This work is supported by the IT R&D program of MKE/KEIT, [10032105, Development of Realistic Multiverse Game Engine Technology].

    Keywords

    • Flexible scheme
    • Key management
    • Key revocation
    • Locally distributed
    • Scalable key management
    • Sensor networks

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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