An efficient and sustainable self-healing protocol for Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks

Juan Chen, Hongli Zhang, Binxing Fang, Xiaojiang Du, Haining Yu, Xiangzhan Yu

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Pages5356-5361
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012 - Anaheim, CA, United States
Duration: 3 Dec 20127 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
ISSN (Print)2334-0983
ISSN (Electronic)2576-6813

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim, CA
Period3/12/127/12/12

Keywords

  • self-healing
  • sustainable
  • unattended wireless sensor networks

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