Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is frequently
exposed to attackers. The data transmission in secure
channel enhances the data confidentiality. This paper
discusses multiple schemes with different approaches.
Periodic key updating becomes a main point in the design of
each scheme. The key updating enhances the security level
because of the difficulties added in the network cracking.
The performance of each scheme is discussed to show the
drawbacks of the public ideas used in the design of these key
management schemes. One of these drawbacks is the
drawback in the mathematical use of the modular function
to generate a shared key between the two parties. This
drawback is used in the new schemes and it is illustrated in
a numerical example in this paper. The results show also the
preference of key updating with each packet to the other
discussed schemes.
Amr M. Kishk : Reactor department, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA)
Nasr City, Cairo, 9621, Egypt
Nagy W. Messiha : Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering (FEE), Elmounfya University
Menouf, Elmounfya, 23952, Egypt
Nawal A. El-Fishawy : Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering (FEE), Elmounfya University
Menouf, Elmounfya, 23952, Egypt
Abd-Elrahman A. Alkafs : Reactor Department, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA)
Nasr City, Cairo, 9621, Egypt
Ahmed H. Madian : Radiation Technology Engineering, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA)
Nasr City, Cairo, 9621, Egypt
Pairwise Key
Shared Key
Key Updating
Public
and Private Keys
The data security in the WSN is based on the key
management schemes used authenticate the sensor nodes
to each others and also with BS. These schemes secure the
communication channels in the WSN and exchange the
encryption keys used to encrypt the exchanged data in the
communication channels. Many different schemes are
discussed in the paper. The concepts of these schemes are
based on two aspects. These aspects are the preloading
initial key(s) in each sensor node and the dependence on
the use of public and secret key(s). The discussion of these
schemes showed the drawbacks of these schemes. These
drawbacks give the ability to the hackers to crack the
network. The error in the use of modular operation to get
the shared key and the dependence on a public key to
encrypt/decrypt the data are two drawbacks discussed in
this paper. The two drawbacks are famous in most key
management schemes.
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