TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-user broadcast authentication in wireless sensor networks
AU - Ren, Kui
AU - Lou, Wenjing
AU - Zhang, Yanchao
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), as it allows the mobile users of WSNs to broadcast messages to multiple sensor nodes in a secure way. Although symmetric-key-based solutions such as μTESLA and multilevel μTESLA have been proposed, they all suffer from severe energy-depletion attacks resulted from the nature of delayed message authentication. This paper presents several efficient public-key-based schemes to achieve immediate broadcast authentication and thus avoid the security vulnerability intrinsic to μTESLA-like schemes. Our schemes are built upon the unique integration of several cryptographic techniques, including the Bloom filter, the partial message recovery signature scheme and the Merkle hash tree. We prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed schemes by a comprehensive quantitative analysis of their energy consumption in both computation and communication.
AB - Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), as it allows the mobile users of WSNs to broadcast messages to multiple sensor nodes in a secure way. Although symmetric-key-based solutions such as μTESLA and multilevel μTESLA have been proposed, they all suffer from severe energy-depletion attacks resulted from the nature of delayed message authentication. This paper presents several efficient public-key-based schemes to achieve immediate broadcast authentication and thus avoid the security vulnerability intrinsic to μTESLA-like schemes. Our schemes are built upon the unique integration of several cryptographic techniques, including the Bloom filter, the partial message recovery signature scheme and the Merkle hash tree. We prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed schemes by a comprehensive quantitative analysis of their energy consumption in both computation and communication.
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U2 - 10.1109/SAHCN.2007.4292834
DO - 10.1109/SAHCN.2007.4292834
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:43549089535
SN - 1424412684
SN - 9781424412686
T3 - 2007 4th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON
SP - 223
EP - 232
BT - 2007 4th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON
T2 - 2007 4th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON
Y2 - 18 June 2007 through 21 June 2007
ER -