PKSN: A pairing based key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor network
Madhurima Buragohain, Nityananda Sarma · 2018
The applications of wireless sensor network (WSN) such as military sensing and tracking, require highly secure communication. Here, owing to security requirement and resource constrained sensor nodes, we propose a novel key management scheme with the design objectives of i) minimizing computation overhead ii) minimizing communication overhead iii) mitigating the effect of node capture attack, and iv) protecting from known attacks like clone attack and replay attack. We have applied identity-based cryptography which makes use of bilinear pairing on elliptic curves. The security of the protocol has been proved using Strand Space model. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol offers better performance in terms of computation time as compared to the similar protocol in the literature.