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USN Security Enhancement Using System IDs  

Kim, Hyun-Jue (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Chung, Jong-Moon (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.46, no.2, 2009 , pp. 73-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Security is critically important for ubiquitous sensor networks that are usually used for the military and serveillance in environments that are opened to attacks, such as, eavesdroping, replay attacks of abnormal messages, forgery of the messages to name a few. ZigBee has emerged as a strong contender for ubiquitous sensor networks. ZigBee is used for low data rate and low power wireless sensor network applications. To deploy ubiquitous sensor networks, the collected information requires protection from an adversary over the network in many cases. The security mechanism should be provided for collecting the information over the network. However, the ZigBee protocol has some security weaknesses. In this paper, these weaknesses are discussed and a method to improve security aspect of the ZigBee protocol is presented along with a comparison of the message complexity of the proposed security protocol with that of the current ZigBee protocol.
Keywords
USN; IEEE 802.15.4; ZigBee security; authentication; key management;
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