PUF based Secure and Lightweight Authentication and Key-Sharing Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Mahabub Hasan Mahalat ◽  
Dipankar Karmakar ◽  
Anindan Mondal ◽  
Bibhash Sen
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Hardware Security ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Lightweight Authentication

The deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in an untended environment and the openness of the wireless channel bring various security threats to WSN. The resource limitations of the sensor nodes make the conventional security systems less attractive for WSN. Moreover, conventional cryptography alone cannot ensure the desired security against the physical attacks on sensor nodes. Physically unclonable function (PUF) is an emerging hardware security primitive that provides low-cost hardware security exploiting the unique inherent randomness of a device. In this article, we have proposed an authentication and key sharing scheme for the WSN integrating Pedersen’s verifiable secret sharing (Pedersen’s VSS) and Shamir’s secret sharing (Shamir’s SS) scheme with PUF which ensure the desired security with low overhead. The security analysis depicts the resilience of the proposed scheme against different active, passive and physical attacks. Also, the performance analysis shows that the proposed scheme possesses low computation, communication and storage overhead. The scheme only needs to store a polynomial number of PUF challenge-response pairs to the user node. The sink or senor nodes do not require storing any secret key. Finally, the comparison with the previous protocols establishes the dominance of the proposed scheme to use in WSN.

scholarly journals A Lightweight Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danyang Qin ◽  
Shuang Jia ◽  
Songxiang Yang ◽  
Erfu Wang ◽  
Qun Ding
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Malicious Nodes ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Lightweight Authentication ◽  
Key Management Scheme

Security problem is one of the most popular research fields in wireless sensor networks for both the application requirement and the resource-constrained essence. An effective and lightweight Authentication and Key Management Scheme (AKMS) is proposed in this paper to solve the problem of malicious nodes occurring in the process of networking and to offer a high level of security with low cost. For the condition that the mobile sensor nodes need to be authenticated, the keys in AKMS will be dynamically generated and adopted for security protection. Even when the keys are being compromised or captured, the attackers can neither use the previous keys nor misuse the authenticated nodes to cheat. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides more efficient security with less energy consumption for wireless sensor networks especially with mobile sensors.

scholarly journals Comparative Study on Various Authentication Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Raja Rajeswari ◽  
V. Seenivasagam
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Authentication Protocols ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Lightweight Authentication

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of lightweight devices with low cost, low power, and short-ranged wireless communication. The sensors can communicate with each other to form a network. In WSNs, broadcast transmission is widely used along with the maximum usage of wireless networks and their applications. Hence, it has become crucial to authenticate broadcast messages. Key management is also an active research topic in WSNs. Several key management schemes have been introduced, and their benefits are not recognized in a specific WSN application. Security services are vital for ensuring the integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality of the critical information. Therefore, the authentication mechanisms are required to support these security services and to be resilient to distinct attacks. Various authentication protocols such as key management protocols, lightweight authentication protocols, and broadcast authentication protocols are compared and analyzed for all secure transmission applications. The major goal of this survey is to compare and find out the appropriate protocol for further research. Moreover, the comparisons between various authentication techniques are also illustrated.

scholarly journals DOS Attacks on TCP/IP Layers in WSN

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2013) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Dos Attack ◽  
Dos Attacks

The emergence of sensor networks as one of the dominant technology trends in the coming decades has posed numerous unique challenges on their security to researchers. These networks are likely to be composed of thousands of tiny sensor nodes, which are low-cost devices equipped with limited memory, processing, radio, and in many cases, without access to renewable energy resources. While the set of challenges in sensor networks are diverse, we focus on security of Wireless Sensor Network in this paper. First, we propose some of the security goal for Wireless Sensor Network. To perform any task in WSN, the goal is to ensure the best possible utilization of sensor resources so that the network could be kept functional as long as possible. In contrast to this crucial objective of sensor network management, a Denial of Service (DoS) attack targets to degrade the efficient use of network resources and disrupts the essential services in the network. DoS attack could be considered as one of th

Basic Concepts of Wireless Sensor Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Lina M. Pestana Leão de Brito ◽  
Laura M. Rodríguez Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Distributed Sensor Networks ◽  
Distributed Sensor ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Communication Equipment

As with many technologies, defense applications have been a driver for research in sensor networks, which started around 1980 due to two important programs of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): the distributed sensor networks (DSN) and the sensor information technology (SensIT) (Chong & Kumar, 2003). However, the development of sensor networks requires advances in several areas: sensing, communication, and computing. The explosive growth of the personal communications market has driven the cost of radio devices down and has increased the quality. At the same time, technological advances in wireless communications and electronic devices (such as low-cost, low-power, small, simple yet efficient wireless communication equipment) have enabled the manufacturing of sensor nodes and, consequently, the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

scholarly journals Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocols for Low-Cost Passive RFID Tags

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madiha Khalid ◽  
Umar Mujahid ◽  
Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Authentication Protocols ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
The Common ◽  
Network Speed ◽  
Passive Rfid ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The field of pervasive computing especially the Internet of Things (IoT) network is evolving due to high network speed and increased capacity offered by the 5G communication system. The IoT network identifies each device before giving it access to the network. The RFID system is one of the most prominent enabling technologies for the node identification. Since the communication between the node and the network takes place over an insecure wireless channel, an authentication mechanism is required to avoid the malicious devices from entering the network. This paper presents a brief survey on the authentication protocols along with the prominent cryptanalysis models for the EPC C1G2 RFID systems. A comparative analysis is provided to highlight the common weaknesses of the existing authentication algorithms and to emphasize on the lack of security standardization for the resource constraint IoT network perception layer. This paper is concluded by proposing an ultralightweight protocol that provides Extremely Good Privacy (EGP). The proposed EGP protocol avoids all the pitfalls highlighted by the cryptanalysis of the existing authentication protocols. The incorporation of the novel ultralightweight primitives, Per-XOR (Px) and Inverse Per-XOR (Px-1), makes the protocol messages more robust and irreversible for all types of adversaries. A comprehensive security analysis illustrates that the proposed protocol proves to be highly resistive against all possible attack scenarios and ensures the security optimally.

scholarly journals An efficient cryptographic technique using modified Diffie–Hellman in wireless sensor networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014772092577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahwar Ali ◽  
A Humaria ◽  
M Sher Ramzan ◽  
Imran Khan ◽  
Syed M Saqlain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Diffie Hellman

In wireless sensor networks, the sensors transfer data through radio signals to a remote base station. Sensor nodes are used to sense environmental conditions such as temperature, strain, humidity, sound, vibration, and position. Data security is a major issue in wireless sensor networks since data travel over the naturally exposed wireless channel where malicious attackers may get access to critical information. The sensors in wireless sensor networks are resource-constrained devices whereas the existing data security approaches have complex security mechanisms with high computational and response times affecting the network lifetime. Furthermore, existing systems, such as secure efficient encryption algorithm, use the Diffie–Hellman approach for key generation and exchange; however, Diffie–Hellman is highly vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attack. This article introduces a data security approach with less computational and response times based on a modified version of Diffie–Hellman. The Diffie–Hellman has been modified to secure it against attacks by generating a hash of each value that is transmitted over the network. The proposed approach has been analyzed for security against various attacks. Furthermore, it has also been analyzed in terms of encryption/decryption time, computation time, and key generation time for different sizes of data. The comparative analysis with the existing approaches shows that the proposed approach performs better in most of the cases.

scholarly journals An Untraceable Data Sharing Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Chen ◽  
Wei Lu ◽  
Weiwei Xing ◽  
Na Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Source Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sink Node ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secure Data

With the wide application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), secure data sharing in networks is becoming a hot research topic and attracting more and more attention. A huge challenge is securely transmitting the data from the source node to the sink node. Except for eavesdropping the information stored in the packages, the adversary may also attempt to analyze the contextual information of the network to locate the source node. In this paper, we proposed a secure data sharing approach to defend against the adversary. Specifically, we first design a secret key mechanism to guarantee the security of package delivery between a pair of nodes. Then, a light-weighted secret sharing scheme is designed to map the original message to a set of shares. Finally, the shares are delivered to the sink node independently based on a proper random routing algorithm. Simulation results illustrate that our approach can defend against the eavesdropping and tracing-back attack in an energy-efficient manner.

Wireless Sensor Network for Performance Monitoring of Electrical Machine

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Priyanka Ranaware ◽  
N.D. Dhoot
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Electrical Machine ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Monitoring And Control

<p class="Default">This paper proposes a novel industrial wireless sensor network for industrial machine condition monitoring. To avoid unexpected equipment failures and obtain higher accuracy in diagnostic and prognostic for the health condition of a motor, efficient and comprehensive data collecting, monitoring, and control play an important role to improve the system more reliable and effective. A novel wireless data collection for health monitoring system of electric machine based on wireless sensor network is proposed and developed in this paper. The unique characteristics of ZigBee networks such as low power, low cost, and high flexibility make them ideal for this application. The proposed system consists of wireless sensor nodes which are organized into a monitoring network by ZigBee protocols. A base station and wireless nodes have been developed to form a prototype system. Various sensors have the capability to monitor physiological as well as environmental conditions. Therefore proposed system provides a flexible solution that makes our living spaces more intelligent.</p>

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