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The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services
Practical Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks
San Diego, California
July 17-July 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2375-7
Donggang Liu, North Carolina State University
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University
Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University

Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in sensor networks; it allows a sender to broadcast messages to multiple nodes in an authenticated way. ?TESLA and multi-level ?TESLA have been proposed to provide such services for sensor networks. However, none of these techniques are scalable in terms of the number of senders. Though multi-level ?TESLA schemes can scale up to large sensor networks (in terms of receivers), they either use substantial bandwidth and storage at sensor nodes, or require significant resources at senders to deal with DOS attacks. This paper presents ef?cient techniques to support a potentially large number of broadcast senders using ?TESLA instances as building blocks. The proposed techniques are immune to the DOS attacks. This paper also provides two approaches, a revocation tree based scheme and a proactive distribution based scheme, to revoke the broadcast authentication capability from compromised senders. The proposed techniques are implemented, and evaluated through simulation on TinyOS. The analysis and experiment show that these techniques are ef?cient and practical, and can achieve better performance than the previous approaches.

Citation:
Donggang Liu, Peng Ning, Sencun Zhu, Sushil Jajodia, "Practical Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks," mobiquitous, pp.118-132, The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, 2005
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