Public key based key distribution scheme for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Since key pre-distribution schemes based on symmetric key can not completely solve security problems of keys distribution in WSN,a new public key based key distribution scheme was proposed.In the scheme,public key set was generated by an initial public key set and a hash function in base station.Each sensor device was pre-distributed one public/private pair-wise key from public key set and a public key subset from the initial public keys set.Owing to uniqueness of private key,not only the communication security problems could be improved for WSN.but also the sensor-memory cost could be decreased.With the theorem of random-graph theory,the connectivity and scalability were illustrated.The results showed that the scheme was superior to the traditional key pre-distribution schemes.

Keywords

• wireless sensor network;asymmetric key algorithm;symmetric key algorithm;connectivity;scalability