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Taojun Wu, Yi Cui, Brano Kusy, Akos Ledeczi, Janos Sallai, Nathan Skirvin, Jan Werner, Yuan Xue. "A Fast and Efficient Source Authentication Solution for Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks". Proceedings of New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2007, ifip, IEEE, May, 2007.

Abstract
Wireless sensor network has drawn increasing attentions in recent years due to its wide range of applications. Often deployed in hostile environments, wireless sensor network is particularly vulnerable to malicious attacks. Thus security becomes a critical issue. This paper studies the security support for source authentication for broadcasting in wireless sensor networks. Our problem is motivated by a real sensor network application scenario -- Dirty Bomb Detection and Localization, which requires efficient broadcast source authentication service in real-time. Although there exist broadcast source authentication solutions developed for wireless sensor networks, they either require significate latency in key release from a one-way hash key chain, or need a large memory space and/or involve high communication overhead. None of these solutions could meet the strict requirements from real-time communication and the limited memory space in our application. To address this issue, we present a broadcast source authentication mechanism based on multiple message authentication codes (MultiMAC). The novel contribution of this work is that it proposes a deterministic combinatorial key distribution scheme that provides scalable authentication service with limited key storage need. This authentication service is implemented as a security component in TinyOS as part of the Dirty Bomb Detection and Localization application, where its performance is validated.

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  Nathan Skirvin, Jan Werner, Yuan Xue. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/206.html" >A
  Fast and Efficient Source Authentication Solution for
  Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks</a>,
  Proceedings of New Technologies, Mobility and Security,
  2007, ifip, IEEE, May, 2007.

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  Taojun Wu, Yi Cui, Brano Kusy, Akos Ledeczi, Janos Sallai,
  Nathan Skirvin, Jan Werner, Yuan Xue. "A Fast and
  Efficient Source Authentication Solution for Broadcasting in
  Wireless Sensor Networks". Proceedings of New
  Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2007, ifip, IEEE, May,
  2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{WuCuiKusyLedecziSallaiSkirvinWernerXue07_FastEfficientSourceAuthenticationSolutionForBroadcasting,
      author = {Taojun Wu and Yi Cui and Brano Kusy and Akos
                Ledeczi and Janos Sallai and Nathan Skirvin and
                Jan Werner and Yuan Xue},
      title = {A Fast and Efficient Source Authentication
                Solution for Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor
                Networks},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of New Technologies, Mobility and
                Security, 2007},
      organization = {ifip, IEEE},
      month = {May},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Wireless sensor network has drawn increasing
                attentions in recent years due to its wide range
                of applications. Often deployed in hostile
                environments, wireless sensor network is
                particularly vulnerable to malicious attacks. Thus
                security becomes a critical issue. This paper
                studies the security support for source
                authentication for broadcasting in wireless sensor
                networks. Our problem is motivated by a real
                sensor network application scenario -- Dirty Bomb
                Detection and Localization, which requires
                efficient broadcast source authentication service
                in real-time. Although there exist broadcast
                source authentication solutions developed for
                wireless sensor networks, they either require
                significate latency in key release from a one-way
                hash key chain, or need a large memory space
                and/or involve high communication overhead. None
                of these solutions could meet the strict
                requirements from real-time communication and the
                limited memory space in our application. To
                address this issue, we present a broadcast source
                authentication mechanism based on multiple message
                authentication codes (MultiMAC). The novel
                contribution of this work is that it proposes a
                deterministic combinatorial key distribution
                scheme that provides scalable authentication
                service with limited key storage need. This
                authentication service is implemented as a
                security component in TinyOS as part of the Dirty
                Bomb Detection and Localization application, where
                its performance is validated.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/206.html}
  }
  

Posted by Taojun Wu on 20 Mar 2007.
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