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 A Review of Protocols Design in Secure and Efficient Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 541-546
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Authentication Protocols ◽  
The Core ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Lightweight Authentication

Majority of the applications demand confidentiality and integrity of the shared information using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Key management schemes are one of the core concepts that ensure the security of WSNs. Prior key management schemes failed to provide required security arrangements in WSNs. Authentication is the core parameters that assess the capability of the deployed sensor nodes in the communication fields. In this paper, we review the existing authentication protocols by stating its merits and demerits. It is observed that the need for a secure and efficient authentication protocol is still in demand, owing to the real issues like identity overheads, information retrieval and location mining. This paper will assist the upcoming researchers to have an insight into the significance of lightweight authentication protocols in WSNs.

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 A Complete Hierarchical Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Ming Chen ◽  
Xinying Zheng ◽  
Tsu-Yang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Heterogeneous Cluster ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
Key Management Scheme

Heterogeneous cluster-based wireless sensor networks (WSN) attracted increasing attention recently. Obviously, the clustering makes the entire networks hierarchical; thus, several kinds of keys are required for hierarchical network topology. However, most existing key management schemes for it place more emphasis on pairwise key management schemes or key predistribution schemes and neglect the property of hierarchy. In this paper, we propose a complete hierarchical key management scheme which only utilizes symmetric cryptographic algorithms and low cost operations for heterogeneous cluster-based WSN. Our scheme considers four kinds of keys, which are an individual key, a cluster key, a master key, and pairwise keys, for each sensor node. Finally, the analysis and experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient; thus, it is suitable for heterogeneous cluster-based WSN.

scholarly journals Key Management Schemes of Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
SYED KHALIQ-UR-RAHMAN RAAZI ◽  
ZEESHAN PERVEZ ◽  
SUNGYOUNG LEE
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Management Schemes

An Adaptable Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4898-4906
Author(s):  
Hesham A. El Zouka
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Battery Lifetime ◽  
Memory Time ◽  
Management Schemes

The design of secure and survivable nodes is one of the most vital issues in designing energy-efficient protocols for wireless sensor network where the energy, memory and computational power of sensor nodes are limited. In this paper, some of the challenges facing the wireless sensor networks are discussed in attempting to prolong the battery lifetime of the nodes, and to secure the communication channel. While most of these attacks can be dealt with through cryptographic security protocols provided by key management schemes, there are always a few that manage to really cause problems. One such attack that is most common and significant in WSNs is cloning attack. In clone attack, the intruder tries to capture and compromise some nodes and inject them into several locations throughout the network in order to conduct other types of attacks. Moreover, if this attack is not detected early, then these replicated injected nodes will consume a large amount of the network resources. Several possible approaches are suggested to improve the security, authentication protocols, and key management schemes in WSNs.  Furthermore, utilizing the existing security protocols in wireless sensor networks has led us to propose a secure framework which incorporates security protocols in a way that minimizes the energy consumption of the sensor nodes. Our algorithm ensures data confidentiality, node authentication, and data integrity while remaining within acceptable memory, time and energy constrains.

A unified security framework with three key management schemes for wireless sensor networks

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (18) ◽  
pp. 4269-4280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabia Riaz ◽  
Ayesha Naureen ◽  
Attiya Akram ◽  
Ali Hammad Akbar ◽  
Ki-Hyung Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Management Schemes
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