@inproceedings{6e320c53e5ca41859ebe5d90b6ec117f,
title = "Attack-resilient random key distribution scheme for distributed sensor networks",
abstract = "Key pre-distribution schemes are a favored solution for establishing secure communication in sensor networks. Often viewed as the safest way to bootstrap trust, the main drawback is seen to be the large storage overhead imposed on resource-constrained devices and also these schemes are quite insecure because pre-loading global secrets onto exposed devices strengthens the incentive for attackers to compromise nodes. To overcome these drawback, we propose a new key predistribution scheme for pairwise key setup in sensor networks. In our scheme each sensor node is assigned with small number of randomly selected generation keys instead of storing big number of random keys and a shared secrete key can be efficiently computed from it. After generating the keys with neighbors the initial keys rings are being deleted from nodes memory. The analysis of our approach shows that it improves the previous random key pre-distribution schemes by providing the more resiliency against node capture and collusion attacks. Even if a node being compromised, an adversary can only exploit a small number of keys nearby the compromised node, while other keys in the network remain safe.",
author = "Firdous Kausar and Sajid Hussain and Kim, {Tai Hoon} and Ashraf Masood",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-77090-9_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540770893",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "1--11",
editor = "Denko, {Mieso K.} and Denko, {Mieso K.} and Denko, {Mieso K.} and Chi-Sheng Shih and Chi-Sheng Shih and Chi-Sheng Shih and Kuan-Ching Li and Kuan-Ching Li and Kuan-Ching Li and Shiao-Li Tsao and Shiao-Li Tsao and Shiao-Li Tsao and Qing-An Zeng and Qing-An Zeng and Qing-An Zeng and Soo-Hyun Park and Soo-Hyun Park and Soo-Hyun Park and Young-Bae Ko and Young-Bae Ko and Young-Bae Ko and Shih-Hao Hung and Shih-Hao Hung and Shih-Hao Hung and Park, {Jong Hyuk} and Park, {Jong Hyuk} and Park, {Jong Hyuk}",
booktitle = "Emerging Direction in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing - EUC 2007 Workshops",
note = "2007 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2007 Workshops ; Conference date: 17-12-2007 Through 20-12-2007",
}