TinySec: A link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks

SenSys'04 - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 162-175

  Karlof, Chris ^a   Sastry, Naveen ^a   Wagner, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Link Layer Security; Sensor Network Security

Indexed keywords

DESIGN VULNERABILITIES; LINK LAYER SECURITY; SENSOR NETWORK SECURITY; BANDWIDTH OVERHEADS; CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; LESSONS LEARNED; LINK LAYER PROTOCOL; PACKET OVERHEAD; RADIO PLATFORMS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; SECURITY PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SWEET SPOT; TINYSEC;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSORS; DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 26444574670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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