TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-user broadcast authentication in wireless sensor networks
AU - Ren, Kui
AU - Yu, Shucheng
AU - Lou, Wenjing
AU - Zhang, Yachao
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), as it allows mobile users of WSNs to broadcast messages to multiple sensor nodes in a secure way. Although symmetric-key-based solutions such as μ TESLA and multilevel μTESLA have been proposed, they all suffer from severe energy-depletion attacks resulting from the nature of delayed message authentication. This paper presents several efficient public-key-based schemes to achieve immediate broadcast authentication and thus avoid the security vulnerability that is intrinsic to μTESLA-like schemes. Our schemes are built upon the unique integration of several cryptographic techniques, including the Bloom filter, the partial message-recovery signature scheme, and the Merkle hash tree. We prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed schemes by a comprehensive quantitative analysis of their energy consumption in both computation and communication.
AB - Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), as it allows mobile users of WSNs to broadcast messages to multiple sensor nodes in a secure way. Although symmetric-key-based solutions such as μ TESLA and multilevel μTESLA have been proposed, they all suffer from severe energy-depletion attacks resulting from the nature of delayed message authentication. This paper presents several efficient public-key-based schemes to achieve immediate broadcast authentication and thus avoid the security vulnerability that is intrinsic to μTESLA-like schemes. Our schemes are built upon the unique integration of several cryptographic techniques, including the Bloom filter, the partial message-recovery signature scheme, and the Merkle hash tree. We prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed schemes by a comprehensive quantitative analysis of their energy consumption in both computation and communication.
KW - Broadcast authentication
KW - Multiuser
KW - Security
KW - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
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U2 - 10.1109/TVT.2009.2019663
DO - 10.1109/TVT.2009.2019663
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70350230005
SN - 0018-9545
VL - 58
SP - 4554
EP - 4564
JO - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IS - 8
ER -