International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security (IJCNIS)
IJCNIS Vol. 6, No. 4, 8 Mar. 2014
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A Comparative Study of Key Management Protocols for WSN
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Author(s)
Seema Verma
1,*
Prachi
2
Index Terms
Energy, key, memory, security, WSN
Abstract
Increased employment of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) in real life applications and their hostile and remote locations accelerate demand of security in WSN. Publicly accessible wireless communication channel also makes WSN vulnerable to numerous security attacks. Scarcity of resources acquaints new sort of challenges and difficulties during implementation of effective security mechanisms. In this paper, we evaluate and compare performance of three different security mechanisms (ECRKS, CKP and AP scheme). ECRKS (Energy-efficient, Connected, Resilient Key pre-distribution Scheme) is based upon multi hop communication architecture specifically designed for homogeneous WSN. Clustering based protocols, AP (Asymmetric pre-distribution) scheme and CKP (Clustering based Key management Protocol) are proposed for heterogeneous WSN. All the above mentioned schemes are simulated in MATLAB to evaluate their effectiveness and suitability for WSN. Simulation result shows that CKP outperforms other two schemes in terms of transmission distance, memory burden, energy dissipation and resilience.
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Seema Verma, Prachi, "A Comparative Study of Key Management Protocols for WSN", International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security(IJCNIS), vol.6, no.4, pp.29-36, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijcnis.2014.04.04
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