Authentication using virtual certificate authorities: A new security paradigm for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 2010 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 92-99

  Holohan, Edmond ^a   Schukat, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Authentication; Security; Virtual certificate authority; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY; IEEE 802.15.4; LIMITED MEMORY; NETWORK NODE; ORIGINAL DESIGN; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; PROTOCOL STACK; PUBLIC-KEY ENCRYPTION; PUBLIC-KEY INFRASTRUCTURE; RESOURCECONSTRAINED DEVICES; SECURITY; SECURITY ISSUES; SENSOR DEVICE; TAMPER RESISTANT; TAMPER-PROOF DEVICES; VIRTUAL CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY; WIRELESS MEDIUM; WIRELESS SENSOR; ZIG-BEE;

AD HOC NETWORKS; AUTHENTICATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78449280146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCA.2010.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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