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J. Sens. Actuator Netw., Volume 3, Issue 3 (September 2014) – 3 articles , Pages 181-244

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Evaluation of Secure Multi-Hop Node Authentication and Key Establishment Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Ismail Mansour, Gérard Chalhoub and Pascal Lafourcade
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2014, 3(3), 224-244; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan3030224 - 03 Sep 2014
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Designing secure authentication mechanisms in wireless sensor networks in order to associate a node to a secure network is not an easy task due to the limitations of this type of networks. In this paper, we propose different multi-hop node authentication protocols for [...] Read more.
Designing secure authentication mechanisms in wireless sensor networks in order to associate a node to a secure network is not an easy task due to the limitations of this type of networks. In this paper, we propose different multi-hop node authentication protocols for wireless sensor networks. For each protocol, we provide a formal proof to verify the security of our proposals using Scyther, which is an automatic cryptographic protocols verification tool. We also provide implementation results in terms of execution time consumption obtained by real measurements on TelosB motes. These protocols offer different security mechanisms depending on the design of the protocol itself. Moreover, we evaluate the overhead of protection of each solution by studying the effect on execution time overhead of each protocol. Finally, we propose a mechanism to detect possible attack based on our evaluation results. Full article
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On the Modeling of Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes
by Sebastian Bader, Xinyu Ma and Bengt Oelmann
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2014, 3(3), 207-223; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan3030207 - 04 Aug 2014
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Solar energy harvesting allows for wireless sensor networks to be operated over extended periods of time. In order to select an appropriate harvesting architecture and dimension for its components, an effective method for the comparison of system implementations is required. System simulations have [...] Read more.
Solar energy harvesting allows for wireless sensor networks to be operated over extended periods of time. In order to select an appropriate harvesting architecture and dimension for its components, an effective method for the comparison of system implementations is required. System simulations have the capability to accomplish this in an accurate and efficient manner. In this paper, we evaluate the existing work on solar energy harvesting architectures and common methods for their modeling. An analysis of the existing approaches demonstrates a mismatch between the requirement of the task to be both accurate and efficient and the proposed modeling methods, which are either accurate or efficient. As a result, we propose a data-driven modeling method based on artificial neural networks for further evaluation by the research community. Preliminary results of an initial investigation demonstrate the capability of this method to accurately capture the behavior of a solar energy harvesting architecture, while providing a time-efficient model generation procedure based on system-level data. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks)
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An Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
by Mee Loong Yang, Adnan Al-Anbuky and William Liu
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2014, 3(3), 181-206; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan3030181 - 01 Jul 2014
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We propose a new authenticated key agreement scheme based on Blom’s scheme, but using multiple master keys and public keys in permutations to compute the private keys in each node. The computations are over a small prime field, and by storing them in [...] Read more.
We propose a new authenticated key agreement scheme based on Blom’s scheme, but using multiple master keys and public keys in permutations to compute the private keys in each node. The computations are over a small prime field, and by storing them in a random order in the node, the private-public-master-key associations (PPMka) of the private keys are lost. If a node is captured, the PPMka of the private keys cannot be determined with certainty, making it difficult to begin to attack the scheme. We obtained analytical results to show that, using suitable keying parameters, the probability of discovering the correct PPMka can be made so small, that a very powerful adversary needs to capture the entire network of tens of thousands of nodes or expend an infeasible amount of effort to try all of the possible solutions. We verified our results using computer-simulated attacks on the scheme. The unknown PPMka enables our scheme to break free from the capture threshold of the original Blom’s scheme, so that it can be used in large networks of low-resource devices, such as sensor nodes. Full article
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