TY - GEN
T1 - Adversarially-resistant on-demand topic channels for wireless sensor networks
AU - Behrens, Hans Walter
AU - Candan, Kasim
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation under the proposal “DataStorm: A Data Enabled System for End-to-End Disaster Planning and Response” (NSF Award No. 1610282)
Publisher Copyright:
©2018 IEEE
PY - 2019/1/15
Y1 - 2019/1/15
N2 - Wireless sensor networks and other power-efficient devices fill increasingly important roles in modern society. At the same time, they also face increasing internal and external threats, such as node capture or protocol disruption by adversarial agents. Providing reliable and secure service in the face of these challenges remains an ongoing problem, and one that is only exacerbated by the computational and power constraints imposed on these devices. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of on-demand topic channels in the context of ephemeral wireless sensor networks. Then, building on this concept, we introduce three novel messaging protocols to provide secure, authenticated communication between a sensor network and an authorized user while also providing resilience from accidental or adversarial disruption. These protocols leverage homomorphic hashing in innovative ways to trade secrecy against network and computational costs in on-demand topic channel authentication. Finally, we compare and contrast the costs of these protocols, and show that hash-based protocols provide significant implementation-independent improvements to network resilience.
AB - Wireless sensor networks and other power-efficient devices fill increasingly important roles in modern society. At the same time, they also face increasing internal and external threats, such as node capture or protocol disruption by adversarial agents. Providing reliable and secure service in the face of these challenges remains an ongoing problem, and one that is only exacerbated by the computational and power constraints imposed on these devices. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of on-demand topic channels in the context of ephemeral wireless sensor networks. Then, building on this concept, we introduce three novel messaging protocols to provide secure, authenticated communication between a sensor network and an authorized user while also providing resilience from accidental or adversarial disruption. These protocols leverage homomorphic hashing in innovative ways to trade secrecy against network and computational costs in on-demand topic channel authentication. Finally, we compare and contrast the costs of these protocols, and show that hash-based protocols provide significant implementation-independent improvements to network resilience.
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U2 - 10.1109/SRDS.2018.00019
DO - 10.1109/SRDS.2018.00019
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062110676
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
SP - 83
EP - 92
BT - Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 37th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2018
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 37th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2018
Y2 - 2 October 2018 through 5 October 2018
ER -