An improved hybrid key management scheme for wireless sensor networks
Priyanka Ahlawat, Mayank Dave · 2016
The prevention of node capture attack is an important issue for wireless sensor network (WSN) security. Key management plays a crucial role in providing secure communication among the sensor nodes. The resilience of the key management scheme used by the WSN for secure communication is considered as a performance metric. During a node capture attack, the keying material gets revealed leading to further compromise of other non-compromised nodes/links. The resistance of key management scheme reduces as the number of captured nodes increases degrading security of the network. This paper addresses minimization of node capture and proposes an improved hybrid key management scheme for it. The scheme uses cryptographic hash function to reduce the number of additional compromised links and thus, the resistance against node capture is improved. We have also evaluated our scheme analytically and results obtained show that it gives better resilience against node capture as compared to other existing schemes.