Dynamic Key Management Scheme Research Articles

Dynamic group key management scheme for clustered wireless sensor networks

A Group Key Management is a technique to establish shared group key, between the cluster head and sensor nodes for multiple sessions in a clustered network environment. The common use of this established group key (also termed as conference key) is to permit users to encrypt and decrypt a particular broadcast message that is meant for the total user group. In this work, we propose a cluster based dynamic group key management protocol that is based on public key cryptography. Cluster head initiates establishment of group key to the sensor nodes efficiently and achieves secure communication. Later, the computation of the common group key is performed by each sensor node. Group members have functionality to join and leave from particular communication along with this, other nodes, equal to threshold compute new conference key without involvement of cluster head. The proposed protocol is investigated in terms of security and complexity analysis using network simulator (NS-2).

Dynamic Key Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks and Cyber Physical Systems

With the fast development and widespread comply of wireless sensor networks (WSN) security is one of the prominent issues. WSNs have been used in many applications including environmental monitoring, wireless mobile networks for health monitoring, traffic monitoring, real space monitoring and in military surveillance. Due to the limitations of sensor nodes, traditional key management schemes have some problem’s, therefore efficient key management schemes are required for WSNs for secure communication. The main aim of key management scheme is to establish keys between the communicating nodes to exchange data in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Key management schemes are classified into static and dynamic. In static schemes, there are many challenges. Among the communication entities, there is no handshaking in static key management and other approach is distributed pair wise keys which are used for an exchange of data between communication nodes. To overcome those challenges dynamic key management schemes have been introduced. Security services such as authentication, integrity­, non-repudiation, and confidentiality are required for message security. Thus, key management is one of the fundamental issues in CPS security.

Security and Key Management Challenges Over WSN (A Survey)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have turned to be the backbone of most present-day information technology, which supports the service-oriented architecture in a major activity. Sensor nodes and its restricted and limited resources have been a real challenge because there’s a great engagement with sensor nodes and Internet Of things (IoT). WSN is considered to be the base stone of IoT which has been widely used recently in too many applications like smart cities, industrial internet, connected cars, connected health care systems, smart grids, smart farming and it's widely used in both military and civilian applications now, such as monitoring of ambient conditions related to the environment, precious species and critical infrastructures. Secure communication and data transfer among the nodes are strongly needed due to the use of wireless technologies that are easy to eavesdrop, in order to steal its important information. However, is hard to achieve the desired performance of both WSNs and IoT and many critical issues about sensor networks are still open. The major research areas in WSN is going on hardware, operating system of WSN, localization, synchronization, deployment, architecture, programming models, data aggregation and dissemination, database querying, architecture, middleware, quality of service and security. In This paper we discuss in detail all about Wireless Sensor Networks, its classification, types, topologies, attack models and the nodes and all related issues and complications. We also preview too many challenges about sensor nodes and the proposed solutions till now and we make a spot ongoing research activities and issues that affect security and performance of Wireless Sensor Network as well. Then we discuss what’s meant by security objectives, requirements and threat models. Finally, we make a spot on key management operations, goals, constraints, evaluation metrics, different encryption key types and dynamic key management schemes.

SECURITY AND KEY MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES OVER WSN (A SURVEY)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have turned to be the backbone of most present-day information technology, which supports the service-oriented architecture in a major activity. Sensor nodes and its restricted and limited resources have been a real challenge because there’s a great engagement with sensor nodes and Internet Of things (IoT). WSN is considered to be the base stone of IoT which has been widely used recently in too many applications like smart cities, industrial internet, connected cars, connected health care systems, smart grids, smart farming and it's widely used in both military and civilian applications now, such as monitoring of ambient conditions related to the environment, precious species and critical infrastructures. Secure communication and data transfer among the nodes are strongly needed due to the use of wireless technologies that are easy to eavesdrop, in order to steal its important information. However, is hard to achieve the desired performance of both WSNs and IoT and many critical issues about sensor networks are still open. The major research areas in WSN is going on hardware, operating system of WSN, localization, synchronization, deployment, architecture, programming models, data aggregation and dissemination, database querying, architecture, middleware, quality of service and security. In This paper we discuss in detail all about Wireless Sensor Networks, its classification, types, topologies, attack models and the nodes and all related issues and complications. We also preview too many challenges about sensor nodes and the proposed solutions till now and we make a spot ongoing research activities and issues that affect security and performance of Wireless Sensor Network as well. Then we discuss what’s meant by security objectives, requirements and threat models. Finally, we make a spot on key management operations, goals, constraints, evaluation metrics, different encryption key types and dynamic key management schemes.

SKWN: Smart and dynamic key management scheme for wireless sensor networks

SummaryIn the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are witnessing to an unprecedented data production because of the massive deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Typically, a network of several hundred sensors is created to ensure the interactions between the cyber world and the physical world. Unfortunately, the intensive use of this kind of networks has raised several security issues. Indeed, many WSN‐based applications require secure communication in order to protect collected data. This security is generally ensured by encryption of communication between sensors, which requires the establishment of many cryptographic keys. Managing these keys, within a protocol, is an important task that guarantees the effectiveness of the security mechanism. The protocol should be intelligently adaptable not only to intrusion events but also to the security level needed by some applications. An efficient protocol optimizes also sensors energy and consequently increases the network life cycle. In this paper, we propose, a smart and dynamic key management scheme for hierarchical wireless sensor networks (SKWN). Our protocol offers three subschemes to deal with key establishment, key renewal, and new node integration. Regarding existing schemes, SKWN does not only provide reliable security mechanisms, but it also optimizes energy consumption and overheads related to the communication and memory usage. Furthermore, our approach relies on a machine learning approach to monitor the state of the network and decide the appropriate security level. We provide a formal approach and its implementation, together with simulations allowing to compare resources usage with respect to existing approaches.

A Review of Distributed Dynamic Key Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

A Review of Distributed Dynamic Key Management Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

TJET: Ternary Join-Exit-Tree Based Dynamic Key Management for Vehicle Platooning

Vehicle platooning, which is formed by a group of vehicles traveling in close proximity to one another, nose-to-tail, at highway speeds, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, though it brings many opportunities in self-driving, the security of vehicle platooning is still challenging. In this paper, to secure vehicle platooning, particularly to secure communication and efficient key updating for vehicles in a platoon, we first present the notion of ternary join exit tree. A ternary join exit tree consists of main tree, join tree, and exit tree. The users join in the join tree and leave from exit tree. Then, we propose a new dynamic ternary join-exit tree-based dynamic key management scheme, called TJET, for vehicle platooning, which is characterized by providing efficient key updating for not only vehicle joining and leaving, but also platoon merging and splitting. Specifically, based on the structure of ternary join-exit tree, we devise concrete algorithms for vehicle joining, vehicle exiting, platoon merging, and splitting. Moreover, we also analyze the capacities and activation conditions of join tree and exit tree based on strict mathematical proofs. Detailed security analysis show that our proposed TJET holds desirable security properties including forward security, backward security, and resistance to key control. In addition, performance evaluations via extensive simulations demonstrate the efficiency of TJET.

A collusion‐resistant dynamic key management scheme for WSNs

AbstractKey management is an important security service for protecting wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Among various existing schemes, exclusion basis system (EBS) is a practical solution that can be easily implemented to provide long‐term and flexible protection for WSNs. The involved rekeying strategy in EBS can efficiently evict the compromised node and update the key system. However, the relatively small key pool leads to high correlation among the generated key rings. Consequently, it is almost impossible for EBS‐based schemes to efficiently defend collusion attack with their rekeying mechanisms. In this paper, we first analyze the impact of collusion attack on WSNs, especially that in the case where the keys of the compromised nodes can form a connected graph. Then, we propose a novel key management scheme based on EBS. The proposed scheme is termed as t‐EEBS because it can effectively resist the referred collusion attack formed by t(t > 1) nodes. Furthermore, we assume that the proposed scheme is implemented in hierarchical WSNs. In this case, two layers of t‐EEBS administrative keys are used. The upper layer is implemented among the base station and all cluster leaders, while the lower layer involves a t‐EEBS for each cluster. The results of performance evaluation show that the proposed scheme has better resistance to collusion attack than other schemes. Therefore, the proposed scheme can provide better security service for WSNs. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

A Bilinear Pairing-Based Dynamic Key Management and Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks

In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been used in a variety of environments; a wireless network infrastructure, established to communicate and exchange information in a monitoring area, has also been applied in different environments. However, for sensitive applications, security is the paramount issue. In this paper, we propose using bilinear pairing to design dynamic key management and authentication scheme of the hierarchical sensor network. We use the dynamic key management and the pairing-based cryptography (PBC) to establish the session key and the hash message authentication code (HMAC) to support the mutual authentication between the sensors and the base station. In addition, we also embed the capability of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to cluster nodes to find the best path of the sensor network. The proposed scheme can also provide the requisite security of the dynamic key management, mutual authentication, and session key protection. Our scheme can defend against impersonation attack, replay attack, wormhole attack, and message manipulation attack.

An Improved Cluster Key Management Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

The information security of wireless sensor networks is one of hot issues on the current research; this paper combines threshold key scheme with the management of security key sharing and group agreement and proposes dynamic key management scheme through clustering level key matrix of authentication mechanism from the cluster to node. The network is divided into different clusters, and the cluster head conducts the key authentication exchange and updates the key management with threshold key schemes, with no need of third authentication center, reduces the computing and communication costs, and promotes communication.

A dynamic key management scheme for dynamic wireless sensor networks

AbstractDynamic wireless sensor network (DWSN) is a group of mobile sensor nodes deployed in an intended area. Secure communication in DWSNs depends on the existence of an efficient key management scheme. Because of the movements of sensor nodes and unknown mobility pattern, dynamic key management is an important issue in such networks. In this paper, we propose a new key management scheme, which uses key pre‐distribution and post‐deployment key establishment mechanisms for DWSNs. The proposed approach ensures that the two communicating nodes share at least one common key. It also provides efficient ways for key generation and revocation as well as addition or deletion of mobile sensor nodes. Compared with the other key management schemes, which are designed for DWSNs, our simulation and analytical results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach in terms of confidentiality, resilience, memory usage, energy consumption and overhead. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Large scale wireless sensor networks with multi-level dynamic key management scheme

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) have emerged as a promising approach to facilitate the integration of the cyber and physical worlds in highly interconnected and complex ways. CPSs consist of several components, such as sensors, actuators, controllers, etc., and their structures are being complicated, and their scales are increasing day by day. Therefore, the data reliability and security have emerged as critical challenges between physical and virtual components of these systems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are accepted as one of the most crucial technologies for building future CPSs. Because of their wireless and dynamic nature, WSNs are more vulnerable to security attacks than wired networks. The main solution for this problem is the usage of signed messages with symmetric or asymmetric key cryptography. Although, asymmetric key cryptography increases network security, it also causes severe computational, memory, and energy overhead for sensor nodes. On the other hand, symmetric key cryptography has the difficulty of providing high-level security and efficient key management scheme; however, it is better in terms of speed and low energy cost. In this paper, it is aimed to build a multi-level dynamic key management system for WSNs with the aid of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which is a key distribution and coordination center for asymmetric keys. After that, each sensor node constructs different symmetric keys with its neighbors, and communication security is achieved by data encryption and mutual authentication with these keys. Evaluation results show the proposed system is scalable, and its performance is significantly better than asymmetric key management systems.

A Dynamic Key Management Scheme Based on Secret Sharing for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Since wireless sensor networks (WSN for short) are often deployed in hostile environments in many applications, security becomes one of the critical issues in WSN. Moreover, due to the limitation of the sensor nodes, traditional key management schemes are not suitable for it. Thereby,a feasible and efficient key management scheme is an important guarantee for WSN to communicate securely. For the moment, many protocols have been proposed and each has its own advantages. However, these protocols cannot provide sufficient security in many cases, such as node capture attack, which makes WSN more vulnerable than traditional wireless networks. Key protection and revocation issues must be considered with special attention in WSN. To address these two issues, we propose a dynamically clustering key management scheme based on secret sharing for WSN. The scheme combined the hierarchical structure of wireless sensor networks with dynamic key management scheme. The analysis results show that the scheme has strong security and resistance of captured attack, as well as low communicational overhead, and it well meets the requirement of scalability. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v11i3.2300

A novel linear polynomial-based dynamic key management scheme for hierarchical access control

Several key management schemes for dynamic access control in a user hierarchy are proposed in the literature. Most schemes are based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and polynomial interpolation. Due to time-consuming operations involved in the elliptic curve scalar multiplication and construction of interpolating polynomials, most existing schemes require high storage and computational complexity. Moreover, most of the proposed schemes are vulnerable to different attacks including the man-in-the-middle attacks. In this paper, we devise a novel key management scheme for hierarchical access control based on linear polynomials only. We show that our scheme is secure against all possible different attacks including the man-in-the-middle attack, which are required for designing an access control scheme, through both the informal and formal security analysis. The computational cost and the storage space are significantly reduced in our scheme while compared to the recently proposed related schemes. Thus, o...

Using bivariate polynomial to design a dynamic key management scheme for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have become increasingly popular in monitoring environments such as: disaster relief operations, seismic data collection, monitoring wildlife and military intelligence. The sensor typically consists of small, inexpensive, battery-powered sensing devices fitted with wireless transmitters, which can be spatially scattered to form an ad hoc hierarchically structured network. Recently, the global positioning system (GPS) facilities were embedded into the sensor node architecture to identify its location within the operating environment. This mechanism may be exploited to extend the WSN?s applications. To face with the security requirements and challenges in hierarchical WSNs, we propose a dynamic location-aware key management scheme based on the bivariate polynomial key predistribution, where the aggregation cluster nodes can easily find their best routing path to the base station, by containing the energy consumption, storage and computation demands in both the cluster nodes and the sensor nodes. This scheme is robust from the security point of view and able to work efficiently, despite the highly constrained nature of sensor nodes.

Secure Transmission of Mobile Agent in Dynamic Distributed Environments

Huang et al. has recently proposed an efficient key management and access control scheme for mobile agent environments based on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC). Although their scheme provides superior efficiency in comparison with the previous works, however some active attacks threaten its security. In this paper a new dynamic key management scheme based on ECC is proposed that is secure and also is efficient in computation cost. Analyzing the security criteria and performance confirms suitability of the proposed scheme for mobile agent environments.

An Efficient Location based Hybrid and Dynamic Key Management Scheme for SurvSec Security Architecture

An Efficient Location based Hybrid and Dynamic Key Management Scheme for SurvSec Security Architecture

Energy Efficient Dynamic Mixed Key Management Scheme based on Virtual Grid in Wireless Sensor Netwoks

Wireless sensor networks are often deployed in hostile environments and operated on an unattended mode require secure communication among the sensor nodes within the networks. In this paper, we present an energy efficient dynamic mixed key management based on virtual grid for wireless sensor networks.First,we divide the whole area into many clusters and a cluster is composed of many virtual grid,and there is only a active node in a grid to reduce energy consumption;Second,we introduce the typical energy model to compute energy consume and a long sleeping state to reduce energy consumption. In addition, we adopt mixed strategy to achieve dynamic key management,namely,we use two key to achieve active node communicate with cluster head,which the random key is generates by active nodes and head,then generate public key;while we use pairwise key to communicate with neighbor cluster heads which has the different pairwise key for different heads.Compared with the random key based predistribution schemesin, q-composite scheme,our scheme has better performance on security and storage overhead.

An Energy Efficient Dynamic Key Management Scheme Based on Polynomial and Cluster in Wireless Sensor Netwoks

An Energy Efficient Dynamic Key Management Scheme Based on Polynomial and Cluster in Wireless Sensor Netwoks

A Forward Authentication Key Management Scheme for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

Key encryption technology is a basic technique for protecting the secrecy of transmitted data among sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks. However, sensor nodes are inherently limited by insufficient hardware resources such as memory capacity and battery lifetime. As a result, few current key management schemes are appropriate for wireless sensor networks. This paper proposes a new key management method that uses dynamic key management schemes for heterogeneous sensor networks. The proposed scheme loads a hash function into the base station, cluster heads, and sensor nodes. The cluster heads and sensor nodes then generate their own keychains to provide forward authentication in case of key changes, security breaches, key changes due to security breaches. The cluster heads and sensor nodes establish pairwise keys to ensure transmission secrecy. The proposed scheme decreases the number of keys required for sensor nodes and cluster heads and is robust to the following attacks: guessing attacks, replay attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, node capture attacks, and denial-of-service attacks.