• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.117-126
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• 2009

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. They provide network access for both mesh and conventional clients. The integration of WMNs with other networks such as the Internet, cellular, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, sensor networks, etc., This paper presents a secure and efficient authentication mechanism for Wireless mesh network. The validity of proposed mechanism is provided by BAN logic and the efficiency of suggested mechanism is showed through the performance evaluation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.290-296
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a practical authentication system based on Wireless Body Area Networks(WBAN) for U-healthcare medical information environments. The proposed authentication system is based on symmetric cryptosystem such as AES and is designed to not only provide security such as data secrecy, data authentication, data integrity, but also prevent replay attack by adopting timestamp technique and perform secure authentication between sensor node, master node, base-station, and medical server.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.48-51
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• 2006

To achieve security in wireless sensor networks (WSN), it is important to be able to encrypt messages sent among sensor nodes. We propose a new cryptographic key management protocol, which is based on the clustering scheme but does not depend on the probabilistic key. The protocol can increase the efficiency to manage keys since, before distributing the keys by bootstrap, the use of public keys shared among nodes can eliminate the processes to send or to receive keys among the sensors. Also, to find any compromised nodes safely on the network, it solves safety problems by applying the functions of a lightweight attack-detection mechanism.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.2
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• pp.183-188
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• 2009

Wireless sensor networks will be broadly deployed in the real world and widely utilized for various applications. A prerequisite for secure communication among the sensor nodes is that the nodes should share a session key to bootstrap their trust relationship. The open problems are how to verify the identity of communicating nodes and how to minimize any information about the keys disclosed to the other side during key agreement. At any rate, any one of the existing schemes cannot perfectly solve these problems due to some drawbacks. Accordingly, we propose a new pre-distribution scheme with the following merits. First, it supports authentication services. Second, each node can only find some indices of key spaces that are shared with the other side, without revealing unshared key information. Lastly, it substantially improves resilience of network against node capture. Performance and security analyses have proven that our scheme is suitable for sensor networks in terms of performance and security aspects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.235-236
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• 2008

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 2010

Sensor network can be applied in many areas in our life, and security is very important in applying sensor network. For secure sensor communication, pairwise key establishment between sensor nodes is essential. In this paper, we cluster the network field in hexagonal shapes and preassign three different kinds of key information for each sensor according to its expected location. We adopt overlapped key string pool concept for our clustered network architecture and every node uses the part of sub-strings for setting up pairwise keys with all neighboring nodes in its own cluster and from different clusters according to respective position with small amount of information. Our proposal decreases the memory requirement and increases security level efficiently.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.108-113
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• 2012

Routing paths are mightily important for the network security in WSNs. To maintain such routing paths, sustained path re-selection and path management are needed. Region segmentation based path selection method (RSPSM) provides a path selection method that a sensor network is divided into several subregions, so that the regional path selection and path management are available. Therefore, RSPSM can reduce energy consumption when the path re-selection process is executed. However, it is hard to guarantee optimized secure routing path at all times since the information using the path re-selection process is limited in scope. In this paper, we propose partial path selection method in each subregion using preselected partial paths made by RSPSM for routing path optimization in SEF based sensor networks. In the proposed method, the base station collects the information of the all partial paths from every subregion and then, evaluates all the candidates that can be the optimized routing path for each node using a evaluation function. After the evaluation process is done, the result is sent to each super DN using the global routing path information (GPI) message. Thus, each super DN provides the optimized secure routing paths using the GPI. We show the effectiveness of the proposed method via the simulation results. We expect that our method can be useful for the improvement of RSPSM.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.105-113
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• 2009

The previous key management methods are not appropriate for secure data communication in cluster-based routing scheme. Because cluster heads are elected in every round and communicate with the member nodes for authentication and share-key establishment phase in the cluster. In addition, there are not considered to mobility of nodes in previous key management mechanisms. In this paper, we propose the secure and effective key management mechanisim in the cluster-based routing scheme that if there are no share keys between cluster head and its nodes, we create the cluster key using authentication with base station or trust autentication and exchange the their information for a round.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.2 s.105
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• pp.137-146
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• 2006

Because the traditional public key-based cryptosystems are unsuitable for the sensor node with limited computational and communication capability, a secure communication between two neighbor sensor nodes becomes an important challenging research in sensor network security. Therefore several session key establishment protocols have been proposed for that purpose. In this paper, we analyzed and compared the existing session key establishment protocols based on the criterions of generation strategy and uniqueness of the session key, connectivity, overhead of communication and computation, and vulnerability to attacks. Based on the analysis results, we specify the requirements for the secure and efficient protocols for establishing session keys. Then, we propose an advanced protocol to satisfy the specified requirements and verify the superiority of our protocol over the existing protocols through the detailed analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.10
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• pp.801-807
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• 2013

WSN consists of hundreds to thousands of sensor nodes. In order to solve the problem of energy consumption imbalance cluster head is reelected in every round, while node authentication scheme is utilized for secure communication. However, re-clustering increases the overhead of sensor nodes and during the node authentication phase the frequent AREQ/AREP message exchange also increases the overhead. Therefore, a secure and energy efficient protocol, by which overhead of sensor nodes is reduced and long time communication is achieved, is required for wireless sensor network. In this paper, an energy efficient and reliable IDE-LEACH protocol for WSN is proposed. The proposed protocol is prolongs networks lifetime about average 20% compared to the LEACH-based protocols and all attending nodes in communication form BS authentication consisted of trusted nodes.