Energy efficient security protocol for wireless sensor networks

Cam H., Ozdemir S., Muthuavinashiappan D., Nair- P.

58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2003), Florida, United States Of America, 6 - 09 October 2003, pp.2981-2984 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/vetecf.2003.1286170
  • City: Florida
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Page Numbers: pp.2981-2984
  • Keywords: NOVSF, OVSF, wireless sensor networks, security, key management
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks consist of many inexpensive wireless nodes, each having sensing capability with some computational and communication power. Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms are not suitable for providing security on wireless sensor networks due to limited computation, power, and storage resources available on sensor nodes. Therefore, the energy-efficient security protocol proposed in this paper uses symmetric cryptographic algorithms to support security. To mitigate the drawbacks of symmetric cryptographic algorithms, the session key is changed dynamically, in addition to employing code-hopping technique in non-blocking OVSF codes.