Key Distribution Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey Seyit A. Çamtepe Bülent Yener Combinatorial key pre-distribution distributed wireless sen- dynamic key generation Advances in technology introduce new application areas for sensor networks. Foreseeable wide deployment of mission critical sensor networks creates concerns on security issues. Security of large scale densely deployed and infrastructure-less wireless networks of resource limited sensor nodes requires efficient key distribution and management mechanisms. We consider distributed and hierarchical wireless sensor networks where unicast, multicast and broadcast type of communications can take place. We evaluate deterministic, probabilistic and hybrid type of key pre-distribution and dynamic key generation algorithms for distributing pair-wise, group-wise and network-wise keys. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY cs-05-07
Key Distribution Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks: a Survey
Seyit A. Çamtepe
Bülent Yener
Combinatorial key pre-distribution
distributed wireless sen-
dynamic key generation
Advances in technology introduce new application areas for sensor networks. Foreseeable wide deployment of mission critical sensor networks creates concerns on security issues. Security of large scale densely deployed and infrastructure-less wireless networks of resource limited sensor nodes requires efficient key distribution and management mechanisms. We consider distributed and hierarchical wireless sensor networks where unicast, multicast and broadcast type of communications can take place. We evaluate deterministic, probabilistic and hybrid type of key pre-distribution and dynamic key generation algorithms for distributing pair-wise, group-wise and network-wise keys.
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
cs-05-07