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<p>The authentication of broadcast sources is one of the most important research issues in the area of network security. To confirm that the control information received is from the genuine management nodes, the message broadcasted from management nodes must be verifiable for the working nodes. In this paper, a highly reliable WSN broadcast authentication protocol based-on one-way key chain, namely, the ESKA, is presented. For the purpose of comparison, a group of simulations are conducted. The results have demonstrated that compared with μTESLA, the presented method is of lower authentication delay and higher authentication rate in large broadcast data traffic transmission, meanwhile reducing considerable communication overheads in those applications.</p></abstract>

The authentication of broadcast sources is one of the most important research issues in the area of network security. To confirm that the control information received is from the genuine management nodes, the message broadcasted from management nodes must be verifiable for the working nodes. In this paper, a highly reliable WSN broadcast authentication protocol based-on one-way key chain, namely, the ESKA, is presented. For the purpose of comparison, a group of simulations are conducted. The results have demonstrated that compared with μTESLA, the presented method is of lower authentication delay and higher authentication rate in large broadcast data traffic transmission, meanwhile reducing considerable communication overheads in those applications.

ESKA: A Highly Reliable Authentication Protocol Based-on One-way Key Chain for WSN Broadcast

China University of Mining and Technology

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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The authentication of broadcast sources is one of the most important research issues in the area of network security. To confirm that the control information...

ESKA: A Highly Reliable Authentication Protocol Based-on One-way Key Chain for WSN Broadcast

Pubblicato online: 05 set 2013

Pagine: 1653 - 1674

Ricevuto: 30 mar 2013

Accettato: 15 lug 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-609

© 2013 Qianping Wang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.