KALwEN+: Practical Key Management Schemes for Gossip-Based Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

Zheng Gong, Qiang Tang, Y.W. Law, Hongyang Chen

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    Abstract

    The constrained resources of sensors restrict the design of a key management scheme for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this work, we first formalize the security model of ALwEN, which is a gossip-based wireless medical sensor network (WMSN) for ambient assisted living. Our security model considers the node capture, the gossip-based network and the revocation problems, which should be valuable for ALwEN-like applications. Based on Shamir's secret sharing technique, we then propose two key management schemes for ALwEN, namely the KALwEN+ schemes, which are proven with the security properties defined in the security model. The KALwEN+ schemes not only fit ALwEN, but also can be tailored to other scalable wireless sensor networks based on gossiping.
    Original languageUndefined
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, INSCRYPT 2010
    EditorsX. Lai, M. Yung
    Place of PublicationLondon
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages268-283
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Print)978-3-642-21517-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventInternational Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, INSCRYPT 2010 - Shanghai, China
    Duration: 20 Oct 201024 Oct 2010

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Volume6584

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, INSCRYPT 2010
    Abbreviated titleINSCRYPT
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityShanghai
    Period20/10/1024/10/10

    Keywords

    • METIS-279125
    • IR-75201
    • Key management
    • SCS-Cybersecurity
    • Gossiping
    • EWI-19079
    • Wireless medical sensor network

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