@book{c463c21c34d54ad89608fcb293f201d8,
title = "KALwEN: A New Practical and Interoperable Key Management Scheme for Body Sensor Networks",
abstract = "Key management is the pillar of a security architecture. Body sensor networks(BSNs) pose several challenges -- some inherited from wireless sensor networks(WSNs), some unique to themselves -- that require a new key management scheme to be tailor-made. The challenge is taken on, and the result is KALwEN, a new lightweight scheme that combines the best-suited cryptographic techniques in a seamless framework. KALwEN is user-friendly in the sense that it requires no expert knowledge of a user, and instead only requires a user to follow a simple set of instructions when bootstrapping or extending a network. One of KALwEN's key features is that it allows sensor devices from different manufacturers, which expectedly do not have any pre-shared secret, to establish secure communications with each other. KALwEN is decentralized, such that it does not rely on the availability of a local processing unit (LPU). KALwEN supports global broadcast, local broadcast and neighbor-to-neighbor unicast, while preserving past key secrecry and future key secrecy. The fact that the cryptographic protocols of KALwEN have been formally verified also makes a convincing case.",
keywords = "METIS-254978, SCS-Cybersecurity, EWI-14573, IR-65202",
author = "Y.W. Law and G. Moniava and Zheng Gong and Hartel, {Pieter H.} and M Palaniswami",
year = "2008",
month = dec,
day = "15",
language = "Undefined",
series = "CTIT Technical Report Series",
publisher = "Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)",
number = "WoTUG-31/TR-CTIT-08-67",
address = "Netherlands",
}