M SPECTRA : Secure Power-Efficient Clustered-Topology Routing Algorithm in Large-scale Wireless micro-Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as one of the hottest fields today due to their low-cost, self-organizing behavior, sensing ability in harsh environments, and their large application scope. One of the most challenging topics in WSNs is security. It is critical to provide confidentiality and authentication in order to prevent information from being compromised. However, providing key management for confidentiality and authentication is difficult due to the ad hoc nature, intermittent connectivity, and resource limitations of the sensor network. Though traditional public key-based security protocols do exist, they need large memory, bandwidths and complex algorithms, and are thus unsuitable for WSNs. To reduce the consumption of resources (energy, memory, CPU calculation time, etc.), it is necessary to use symmetric-key-based security. Current solutions to the security issues in WSNs do not consider the correlation between “routing” and “security” effectively. The focus of this work is on the integration of routing and key management to provide an energy efficient security and routing solution. Towards this goal, this work proposes a security protocol that encompasses the following features: integration of security and routing, dynamic security, robust re-keying, lowcomplexity, and multiple levels of encryption. Compared to many others such as SPINS [9], our security scheme with enhanced reliability and scalability consumes much less energy.

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