U-Key : A Secure Unital-Based Wireless Sensor Network

Author(s):

Tibin Thomas , Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally; Kochurani Jacob, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally; Maria Siby, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally; Riya Mathew Mannoor, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kanjirappally

Keywords:

WSN, scalability, symmetric key, unital design, key distribution, security

Abstract:

Wireless sensor network emerges as the backbone of the next generation technologies. The sensor nodes in the network have limited resources, which arise network scalability and security issues. The symmetric key establishment technique used for establishing connections in WSN limits the network scalability. If we distribute the keys to the nodes in advance the scalability could be increased. The unital design theory could be used for this purpose by mapping the unitals to pair wise keys. Although this could increase the scalability of the network, the key sharing probability decreases. An enhanced unital based technique could be used to increase the scalability without decreasing the key sharing probability. The U-key network is able to achieve good scalability level without compromising the performance and security of the network.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV2I10202
Published in	:	Volume : 2, Issue : 10
Publication Date	:	01/05/2016
Page(s)	:	1210-1212

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