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Two’s Company, Three Is a Crowd: A Group-Admission Protocol for WSNs

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Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2006)

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Once a wireless sensor network (WSN) is stable and has been running for a while, sensors start to fail due to hardware problems, battery exhaustion or even due to their physical destruction. In any case, the administrator of the network may wish to replace the damaged nodes with new ones to reinforce the coverage area. In this paper we make use of an out of band channel (OOB) to bootstrap an authenticated symmetric key. The protocol ensures that the new sensor nodes are currently part of the region covered by the network before negotiating sensitive key material and making them a part of the system and its operations. We describe a novel approach to group admission for wireless sensor networks using an OOB secure channel and perform a security evaluation over this protocol.

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    Joao Girao & Miquel Martin

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  1. Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS), Budapest University of Technology and Economics,  

    Levente Buttyán

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    Virgil D. Gligor

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Girao, J., Martin, M. (2006). Two’s Company, Three Is a Crowd: A Group-Admission Protocol for WSNs. In: Buttyán, L., Gligor, V.D., Westhoff, D. (eds) Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks. ESAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11964254_8

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