Secure-TWS
Authenticating Node to Multi-user Communication in Shared Sensor Networks
keywords
Security; Cryptography; Digital Signatures.
Paper
Oliveira, Leonardo B., Kansal, Aman, Priyantha, Bodhi, Goraczko, Michel, Zhao, Feng. Secure-TWS: Authenticating Node to Multi-user Communication in Shared Sensor Networks. International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). 2009.
Abstract
Recent works have shown the usefulness of network and application layer protocols that connect low power sen- sor nodes directly to multiple applications and users on the Internet. We propose a security solution for this scenario. While previous works have provided se- curity support for various communication patterns in sensor networks, such as among nodes, from nodes to a base station, and from users to nodes, the security of communication from sensor nodes to multiple users has not been sufficiently addressed. Specifically, we ex- plore this design space and develop a security solution, named Secure-TWS, for efficient authentication of data sent by a resource constrained sensor node to multiple users, using digital signatures. We investigate the re- source overheads in communication and computation for two most suitable signature schemes – the Ellip- tic Curve Digital Algorithm (ECDSA) and the Boneh- Lynn-Shacham (BLS) short signature schemes. We im- plement these schemes on two popular sensor node ar- chitectures (based on MSP430 and ARM processors with 802.15.4 radios) and experimentally characterize rele- vant trade-offs.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Oliveira2009,
author = {Oliveira, Leonardo B. and Kansal, Aman and Priyantha, Bodhi and Goraczko, Michel and Zhao, Feng},
title = {{Secure-TWS: Authenticating Node to Multi-user Communication in Shared Sensor Networks}},
booktitle = {{International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)}},
year = {2009},
}