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Title:
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A randomized countermeasure against parasitic adversaries in wireless sensor networks.
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Author:
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Luo, Jun.; Panagiotis Papadimitratos.; Hubaux, Jean-Pierre.
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Copyright year:
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2010 |
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Abstract:
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Due to their limited capabilities, wireless sensor nodes are subject to physical attacks that are hard to defend against. In this paper, we first identify a typical attacker, called parasitic adversary, who seeks to exploit sensor networks by obtaining measurements in an unauthorized way. As a countermeasure, we first employ a randomized key refreshing: with low communication cost, it aims at confining (but not eliminating) the effects of the adversary. Moreover, our low-complexity solution, GossiCrypt, leverages on the large scale of sensor networks to protect data confidentiality, efficiently and effectively. GossiCrypt applies symmetric key encryption to data at their source nodes; and it applies re-encryption at a randomly chosen subset of nodes en route to the sink. The combination of randomized key refreshing and GossiCrypt protects data confidentiality with a probability of almost 1; we show this analytically and with simulations. In addition, the energy consumption of GossiCrypt is lower than a public-key based solution by several orders of magnitude. |
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Subject:
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DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Wireless communication systems. |
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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Series/ Journal Title:
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IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications |
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School:
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School of Computer Engineering |
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Rights:
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Version:
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Published version |
