Diversify sensor nodes to improve resilience against node compromise

Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Workshop on Security of ad hoc and Sensor Networks, SASN 2006. A workshop held in conjuction with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 101-112

  Alarifi, Abdulrahman ^a   Du, Wenliang ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Obfuscation; Reverse engineering; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TRACKING (POSITION); USER INTERFACES;

OBFUSCATION METHODS; SECRET KEYS; SENSOR NODES;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34547404724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180345.1180359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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