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Citation
Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh, Shih-I Eric Huang, Doug Tygar. "Secure encrypted-data aggregation for wireless sensor networks". ACM journal of Wireless Networks, May 2009.

Abstract
This paper proposes a secure encrypted-data aggregation scheme for wireless sensor networks. Our design for data aggregation eliminates redundant sensor readings without using encryption and maintains data secrecy and privacy during transmission. Conventional aggregation functions operate when readings are received in plaintext. If readings are encrypted, aggregation requires decryption creating extra overhead and key management issues. In contrast to conventional schemes, our proposed scheme provides security and privacy, and duplicate instances of original readings will be aggregated into a single packet. Our scheme is resilient to known-plaintext attacks, chosen-plaintext attacks, ciphertext-only attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks. Our experiments show that our proposed aggregation method significantly reduces communication overhead and can be practically implemented in on-the-shelf sensor platforms.

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  Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh, Shih-I Eric Huang, Doug Tygar.
  "Secure encrypted-data aggregation for wireless sensor
  networks". <i>ACM journal of Wireless
  Networks</i>, May 2009.

• BibTeX

  @article{ShiehHuangTygar09_SecureEncrypteddataAggregationForWirelessSensorNetworks,
      author = {Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh and Shih-I Eric Huang and
                Doug Tygar},
      title = {Secure encrypted-data aggregation for wireless
                sensor networks},
      journal = {ACM journal of Wireless Networks},
      month = {May},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {This paper proposes a secure encrypted-data
                aggregation scheme for wireless sensor networks.
                Our design for data aggregation eliminates
                redundant sensor readings without using encryption
                and maintains data secrecy and privacy during
                transmission. Conventional aggregation functions
                operate when readings are received in plaintext.
                If readings are encrypted, aggregation requires
                decryption creating extra overhead and key
                management issues. In contrast to conventional
                schemes, our proposed scheme provides security and
                privacy, and duplicate instances of original
                readings will be aggregated into a single packet.
                Our scheme is resilient to known-plaintext
                attacks, chosen-plaintext attacks, ciphertext-only
                attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks. Our
                experiments show that our proposed aggregation
                method significantly reduces communication
                overhead and can be practically implemented in
                on-the-shelf sensor platforms.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/724.html}
  }
  

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