Scalable and efficient key management for heterogeneous sensor networks

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-65

  Kausar, Firdous ^a,b   Hussain, Sajid ^b   Yang, Laurence T ^c   Masood, Ashraf ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authentication; Heterogeneous sensor networks; Key management; Random key predistribution; Security

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; HYBRID SENSORS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; KEYS (FOR LOCKS); MANAGEMENT; MECHANICS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MULTITASKING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PAPER; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ADDRESS STORAGE; APPLIED (CO); BUSINESS MEDIA; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HASH ALGORITHMS; HASH FUNCTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS; HIGH COSTS; HMAC MD5; HMAC-SHA1; HOMOGENEOUS NETWORKS; KEY CHAIN; KEY GENERATION; KEY PRE-DISTRIBUTION (KPD); KEY-MANAGEMENT; NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; PRACTICAL APPROACH; RANDOM KEYS; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; SECRET KEYS; SECURITY SOLUTION (TSS); SENSOR NODE (SN); SPRINGER (CO); STORAGE COSTS; STORAGE REQUIREMENTS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSNS);

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CIRCUITS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NETWORKS; PAPER; SENSORS; STORAGE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 45849089959     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-008-0184-2     Document Type: Article

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