TY - GEN
T1 - An efficient and sustainable self-healing protocol for Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks
AU - Chen, Juan
AU - Zhang, Hongli
AU - Fang, Binxing
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Yu, Haining
AU - Yu, Xiangzhan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Due to the unattended operation nature, nodes in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are susceptible to physical attacks. Once a sensor is compromised, the adversary will be able to learn all its secrets. While some previous works tried to address the node self-healing issue in UWSNs, little effort has been devoted to ensure the sustainability of node self-healing. In this paper, we present a novel sustainable node self-healing protocol for UWSNs. We generate unpredictable random data for key update and thus the node self-healing capability doesn't decrease when the number of attack rounds increases. We show both analytically and through simulation experiments that our protocol provides efficient and sustainable node self-healing capabilities with small overheads.
AB - Due to the unattended operation nature, nodes in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are susceptible to physical attacks. Once a sensor is compromised, the adversary will be able to learn all its secrets. While some previous works tried to address the node self-healing issue in UWSNs, little effort has been devoted to ensure the sustainability of node self-healing. In this paper, we present a novel sustainable node self-healing protocol for UWSNs. We generate unpredictable random data for key update and thus the node self-healing capability doesn't decrease when the number of attack rounds increases. We show both analytically and through simulation experiments that our protocol provides efficient and sustainable node self-healing capabilities with small overheads.
KW - self-healing
KW - sustainable
KW - unattended wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503972
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503972
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877669123
SN - 9781467309219
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
SP - 5356
EP - 5361
BT - 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Y2 - 3 December 2012 through 7 December 2012
ER -