Establishing Different Pairwise Keys Based-On LEACH for Securing Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The communication security problems for wireless sensor networks are exacerbated by the limited power and energy of the sensor devices. The focus of this paper is to design a lightweight group key management scheme to safeguard the data packet passing on the sensor networks. The design of the protocol is motivated by the observation that many sensor nodes in the network play different roles. We describe the design and implementation of establishing different pairwise keys based on LEACH. The protocol contains group communication policies, group membership requirements for secure communication under different types of attacks.