An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures: Implementation and Evaluation

Rehana YASMIN; Eike RITTER; Guilin WANG

doi:10.1587/transinf.E95.D.126

An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures: Implementation and Evaluation

Rehana YASMIN, Eike RITTER, Guilin WANG

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In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), authentication is a crucial security requirement to avoid attacks against secure communication, and to mitigate against DoS attacks exploiting the limited resources of sensor nodes. Resource constraints of sensor nodes are hurdles in applying strong public key cryptographic based mechanisms in WSNs. To address the problem of authentication in WSNs, we propose an efficient and secure framework for authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes as well as for outside user authentication, which utilizes identity based cryptography and online/offline signature (OOS) schemes. The primary goals of this framework are to enable all sensor nodes in the network, firstly, to broadcast and/or multicast an authenticated message quickly; secondly, to verify the broadcast/multicast message sender and the message contents; and finally, to verify the legitimacy of an outside user. This paper reports the implementation and experimental evaluation of the previously proposed authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes scheme using online/offline signature on TinyOS and MICA2 sensor nodes.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E95-D No.1 pp.126-133

Publication Date: 2012/01/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E95.D.126

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication Systems)

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Rehana YASMIN, Eike RITTER, Guilin WANG, "An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures: Implementation and Evaluation" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E95-D, no. 1, pp. 126-133, January 2012, doi: 10.1587/transinf.E95.D.126.
Abstract: In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), authentication is a crucial security requirement to avoid attacks against secure communication, and to mitigate against DoS attacks exploiting the limited resources of sensor nodes. Resource constraints of sensor nodes are hurdles in applying strong public key cryptographic based mechanisms in WSNs. To address the problem of authentication in WSNs, we propose an efficient and secure framework for authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes as well as for outside user authentication, which utilizes identity based cryptography and online/offline signature (OOS) schemes. The primary goals of this framework are to enable all sensor nodes in the network, firstly, to broadcast and/or multicast an authenticated message quickly; secondly, to verify the broadcast/multicast message sender and the message contents; and finally, to verify the legitimacy of an outside user. This paper reports the implementation and experimental evaluation of the previously proposed authenticated broadcast/multicast by sensor nodes scheme using online/offline signature on TinyOS and MICA2 sensor nodes.
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