A Hierarchical Security Architecture for Group-Communication in Sensor Networks

Sensor networks are on the verge of being widely-deployed in large-scale in the near-future. A sensor node consists of large inexpensive microprocessors with one or more sensor types attached to it besides a wireless communication interface. These nodes are typically thrown around over a physical region that needs to be monitored in an organized or ad-hoc manner, where they organize themselves to form a multi-hop wireless network. Typical scenarios of use include environmental, seismic and thermal monitoring, motion detection and camera-based surveillance [ASSC].

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