Security for Wireless Sensor Networks using Identity-Based Cryptography
Features
- Introduces new cross-layer design approaches for WSN using identity-based cryptography
- Combines cross-layer design principles along with identity-based cryptography to provide a new set of security solutions
Summary
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks using Identity-Based Cryptography introduces identity-based cryptographic schemes for wireless sensor networks. It starts with an exhaustive survey of the existing layered approach to WSN security—detailing its pros and cons. Next, it examines new attack vectors that exploit the layered approach to security.
After providing the necessary background, the book presents a cross-layer design approach that addresses authentication, integrity, and encryption. It also examines new ID-based key management mechanisms using a cross-layer design perspective. In addition, secure routing algorithms using ID-based cryptography are also discussed. Supplying readers with the required foundation in elliptic curve cryptography and identity-based cryptography, the authors consider new ID-based security solutions to overcome cross layer attacks in WSN.
Examining the latest implementations of ID-based cryptography on sensors, the book combines cross-layer design principles along with identity-based cryptography to provide you with a new set of security solutions that can boost storage, computation, and energy efficiency in your wireless sensor networks.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks
Introduction
WSN Applications
History of WSN
WSN Architecture
Homogenous Sensor Networks
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Architecture of Sensor Nodes
The Protocol Stack in WSN
MANET versus WSN
Similarities between MANET and WSN
Differences between MANET and WSN
Challenges in WSN
Battery Life and Power Consumption
Power Conservation Mechanism
Communication Media
Integrated Circuit (IC) Technology
The Routing Problem in WSN
Broadcasting and Multicasting
Broadcasting
Network Discovery
Data Aggregation in WSN
Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
Attacks on WSN
Threats to Privacy
Threats to Control
Threats to Availability
Attacks Specific to WSN
Countermeasures to Attacks in WSN
Security in WSN Using a Layered Approach
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Introduction to Modern Algebra
Groups
Rings
Fields
Prime Fields
Binary Fields
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Discrete log Problem
Weierstrass Equations
Prime Curves
Binary Curves
Group Law
Why Elliptic Curve Cryptography?
Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem
Torsion Points
Pairing-Based Cryptography
Divisor Theory
Rational Function
Weil Pairing
Bilinear Property
Tate Pairing
Identity-Based Cryptography
Symmetric Key Cryptographic Systems
Asymmetric Key Cryptographic Systems
Public Key Infrastructure
Single-Certificate Authority Model
A Hierarchy of Certificate Authorities
Pros and Cons of PKI
Identity-Based Cryptography
Computational Problems
Identity-Based Encryption Schemes
Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption Scheme
Identity-Based Authentication Schemes
Key Distribution in IBC
Key Escrow Problem
Threshold Signature Scheme
Identity-Based Authentication and Encryption in Wireless Sensor Networks
Related Work
SPINS
TinySec
Lightweight Public Key Infrastructure for WSN
Identity-Based Digital Signature Schemes in WSN
ID-Based Signature (IBS)
ID-Based Online/Offline Signature (IBOOS)
BNN-IBS Scheme
Description of Identity-Based Multiuser Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks (IMBAS)
ID-Based One-Pass Authenticated Key-Establishment Protocol for WSN
TinyIBE Scheme
Revocation
User Authentication
Identity-Based Key Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
Background
Key-Distribution Schemes
Symmetric Key Algorithms
Trusted Server Mechanisms
Secure n x n Key-Establishment Schemes
Random Key-Predistribution Schemes
q-Composite Scheme
Random Pairwise Key Scheme
Multispace Key Schemes
Deterministic Key-Predistribution Schemes
Public Key Algorithms
ID-Based Key-Distribution Schemes
ID-Based Bilinear Key-Predistribution Scheme for Distributed Sensor Networks
Key Maintenance
Cross-Layer Approach to Key Management
Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Cryptography
Routing Classifications in WSN
Data-Centric Communication
Location Information
Network Layering and In-Network Processing
Path Redundancy
Quality of Service (QoS)
Network Dynamics
Network Heterogeneity
Related Work
Routing Protocols in WSN
Selective-Forwarding Attack in WSN
ID-Based Routing in WSN
Cross-Layer Routing
Cross-Layer Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
Cross-Layer Design in WSN
Motivation
Cross-Layer Design Proposals
Cross-Layer Key Distribution
Clustering Protocol
Cross-Layer Key Establishment
Basic Scheme
Pairwise Key Setup with ECDH
Open Challenges
Cross-Layer Couplings
Coexistence of Cross-Layer Design Proposals
Particular Cross-Layer Design
Standardization of Interfaces
Physical Layer in Cross-Layer Proposals
Ideal Model for Secure Communication
Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Wireless Sensor Networks
Point Coordinate System
Design Principles
ECC Security Parameters
The Platform
MICAz/MICA2 Mote
16-bit MSP430 Microcontroller
Marvell PXA271
Related Work
TinyECC
NanoECC
Implementation of Identity-Based Cryptography (IBC) in WSN
Algorithms for Finite Field Arithmetic
Prime Field Arithmetic on Resource-Constraint Processors
Efficient Binary Field Arithmetic for Low-End Processors
Each chapter includes a Summary and References
Appendix—For Further Reading
Author Bio(s)
Editorial Reviews
Getting the right balance of systems security is a hard enough task in traditional networking, let alone securing a wireless network composed of sensors with high resource limitations that, nonetheless, can collaborate to perform complex tasks. This book serves as an excellent starting point for practitioners in the industry and students in academia to come up to speed with security issues in wireless sensor networks.
—Vijay K. Gurbani, Ph.D., Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
Strong identity mechanisms are a hard sell for today’s Net because people feel that they know who they’re talking to. In the Internet of Things with its focus on unfeeling machine-to-machine communications, we must replace 'feeling secure' with actually being secure. Wireless sensors are the eyes, ears, noses and cat-whiskers of the Internet of Things. Yet these sensors are connected by a network that can be subverted by hostile parties, risking that their output could be diverted or false information inserted. Given the vast number of sensors to be deployed, cryptographic identity systems may be the only manageable approach to trusting our senses.
—Dean Willis, Chair, IETF SIP Working Group, 1999-2009
… a valuable reference on IBC theory and practice that researchers and practitioners will want on their bookshelves for many years. In addition, it will certainly stimulate new directions in research in wireless network security.
—Thomas M. Chen, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Network, 2009–2011
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