Comprehensive Analysis of Broadcast Authentication protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

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.

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A PUBLIC KEY DISTRIBUTION AND BROADCAST AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

International Journal of Computer and Communication Technology ◽

10.47893/ijcct.2015.1290 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 133-137

Author(s):

SHANTALA DEVI PATIL ◽

VIJAYAKUMAR B P

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Key Distribution ◽

Critical Issue ◽

Authentication Scheme ◽

Public Key ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Communication Pattern ◽

Broadcast Communication ◽

Broadcast Authentication

In Wireless Sensor Networks, Broadcast communication is the most fundamental and prevailing communication pattern. Securing the broadcast messages from the adversary is critical issue. To defend the WSNs against the adversary attacks of impersonation of a broadcast source or receiver, modification/fabrication of the broadcast message, attacker injecting malicious traffic to deplete the energy from the sensors, broadcast authentication of source and receivers becomes extremely inevitable. In this paper, we propose a novel ECC based public key distribution protocol and broadcast authentication scheme. The proposed method provides high security and has low overhead.

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Key Predistribution Based Broadcast Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

2009 Fourth International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology ◽

10.1109/fcst.2009.98 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yongsheng Liu ◽

Jie Li

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Authentication Scheme ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Key Predistribution ◽

Broadcast Authentication

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Research on Pseudo-Node Detection Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) ◽

10.3991/ijoe.v13i03.6864 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (03) ◽

pp. 113

Author(s):

Wenjin Yu ◽

Yong Li ◽

Yuangeng Xu

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Detection Algorithm ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Attack Detection ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Font Size ◽

Simulation Results ◽

Sensor Security

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An Improved Broadcast Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on the Self-Reinitializable Hash Chains

Security and Communication Networks ◽

10.1155/2020/8897282 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Haiping Huang ◽

Qinglong Huang ◽

Fu Xiao ◽

Wenming Wang ◽

Qi Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Bloom Filter ◽

Authentication Scheme ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Communication Overhead ◽

Dos Attacks ◽

Hash Chain ◽

Security Properties ◽

Broadcast Authentication

Broadcast authentication is a fundamental security primitive in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which is a critical sensing component of IoT. Although symmetric-key-based μTESLA protocol has been proposed, some concerns about the difficulty of predicting the network lifecycle in advance and the security problems caused by an overlong long hash chain still remain. This paper presents a scalable broadcast authentication scheme named DH-μTESLA, which is an extension and improvement of μTESLA and Multilevel μTESLA, to achieve several vital properties, such as infinite lifecycle of hash chains, security authentication, scalability, and strong tolerance of message loss. The proposal consists of the t,n-threshold-based self-reinitializable hash chain scheme (SRHC-TD) and the d-left-counting-Bloom-filter-based authentication scheme (AdlCBF). In comparison to other broadcast authentication protocols, our proposal achieves more security properties such as fresh node’s participation and DoS resistance. Furthermore, the reinitializable hash chain constructed in SRHC-TD is proved to be secure and has less computation and communication overhead compared with typical solutions, and efficient storage is realized based on AdlCBF, which can also defend against DoS attacks.

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