上海交通大学学报(英文版) ›› 2011, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (5): 593-599.doi: 10.1007/s12204-011-1194-4

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 Highly Resilient Key Distribution Strategy for Multi-level
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks by Using Deployment Knowledge

 WANG Chih-hung (王智弘),    WEI Shih-yi (魏仕益)   

  1. (Department of Computer Science and Information
    Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 60004)
  • 收稿日期:2011-03-10 出版日期:2011-10-29 发布日期:2011-10-20
  • 通讯作者: WANG Chih-hung (王智弘), E-mail: wangch@ncyu.edu.tw

 Highly Resilient Key Distribution Strategy for Multi-level
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks by Using Deployment Knowledge

 WANG Chih-hung (王智弘),    WEI Shih-yi (魏仕益)   

  1. (Department of Computer Science and Information
    Engineering, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 60004)
  • Received:2011-03-10 Online:2011-10-29 Published:2011-10-20
  • Contact: WANG Chih-hung (王智弘), E-mail: wangch@ncyu.edu.tw

摘要: Abstract:  The most important problem in the security of wireless sensor
network (WSN) is to distribute keys for the sensor nodes and to establish a
secure channel in an insecure environment. Since the sensor node has limited
resources, for instance, low battery life and low computational power, the
key distribution scheme must be designed in an efficient manner. Recently
many studies added a few high-level nodes into the network, called the
heterogeneous sensor network (HSN). Most of these studies considered an
application for two-level HSN instead of multi-level one. In this paper, we
propose some definitions for multi-level HSN, and design a novel key
management strategy based on the polynomial hash tree (PHT) method by using
deployment knowledge. Our proposed strategy has lower computation and
communication overheads but higher connectivity and resilience.

关键词:  , heterogeneous sensor network (HSN), key distribution
mechanism,
deployment knowledge, polynomial hash tree (PHT)

Abstract: Abstract:  The most important problem in the security of wireless sensor
network (WSN) is to distribute keys for the sensor nodes and to establish a
secure channel in an insecure environment. Since the sensor node has limited
resources, for instance, low battery life and low computational power, the
key distribution scheme must be designed in an efficient manner. Recently
many studies added a few high-level nodes into the network, called the
heterogeneous sensor network (HSN). Most of these studies considered an
application for two-level HSN instead of multi-level one. In this paper, we
propose some definitions for multi-level HSN, and design a novel key
management strategy based on the polynomial hash tree (PHT) method by using
deployment knowledge. Our proposed strategy has lower computation and
communication overheads but higher connectivity and resilience.

Key words:  heterogeneous sensor network (HSN), key distribution
mechanism,
deployment knowledge, polynomial hash tree (PHT)

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