• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.76-90
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• 2008

무선 센서 네트워크는 자연재해 탐지 시스템, 의료 시스템, 그리고 군사적 응용분야 등의 다양한 환경에서 유용한 해결책을 제시하고 있다. 그러나 센서 네트워크의 구성 환경 및 자원 제약적인 본질적인 특성으로 인해 기존의 전통적인 보안기법을 그대로 센서 네트워크에 적용하기에는 무리가 있다. 특히 네트워크를 구성하는 센서 노드들은 제한된 배터리를 사용하기 때문에 센서 네트워크에 거짓 데이타가 유입되는 경우 서비스 거부 뿐만 아니라 센서 노드의 제한된 에너지를 소모시키는 등의 심각한 문제를 야기할 수 있다. 기존의 전통적인 암호학적 인증 및 키 관리 방법 등을 통한 보안 기법은 센서 네트워크의 물리적인 노드탈취 공격에 대한 취약성으로 인해서 이러한 거짓 데이타 판별에 대한 해결책을 제시하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 평판기반 기법과 달리 각 센서 노드의 위치에 따른 센싱 결과에 대해 일관성 등의 요소를 기반으로 신뢰도를 평가하고, 거짓 데이타를 주입하는 내부 공격에 대한 보안기법을 제안한다. 분석 결과에 따르면 제안한 신뢰도 평가 기반의 데이타 통합 기법은 기존의 중앙값보다 견고한 데이타 통합 결과를 보여준다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.3793-3814
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• 2021

Most secure solutions like cryptography are software based and they are designed to mainly deal with the outside attacks for traditional networks, but such soft security is hard to be implemented in wireless sensor networks to counter the inside attacks from internal malicious nodes. To address this issue, reputation has been introduced to tackle the inside malicious nodes. Reputation is essentially a stimulating mechanism for nodes' cooperation and is employed to detect node misbehaviors and improve the trust-worthiness between individual nodes. Among the reputation models, binomial distribution based reputation has many advantages such as light weight and ease of implementation in resource-constraint sensor nodes, and accordingly researchers have proposed many insightful related methods. However, some of them either directly use the modelling results, apply the models through simple modifications, or only use the required components while ignoring the others as an integral part of the whole model, this topic still lacks a comprehensive and systematical review. Thus the motivation of this study is to provide a thorough survey concerning each detailed functional components of binomial distribution based reputation for wireless sensor networks. In addition, based on the survey results, we also argue some open research problems and suggest the directions that are worth future efforts. We believe that this study is helpful to better understanding the reputation modeling mechanism and its components for wireless sensor networks, and can further attract more related future studies.

• 중소기업융합학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

무선 센서 네트워크는 여러 지역에 퍼져 있는 다수의 센서 노드들이 무선 방식으로 연결 되어있는 그물망으로 전 세계에서 연구되고 있는 기술 중 하나이다. 그러나 자원의 제약성, 무선 통신 사용 등, 네트워크 자체적인 특성으로 인해 일반 네트워크에 비해서 보안이 매우 취약하다. 무선 센서 네트워크의 공격법은 크게 도청기반 공격, 위조기반 공격, 서비스 거부 기반 공격으로 나누어지며, 보안법으로 대개의 Sensor Network Application은 전송되는 정보의 도청 또는 수정, 잘못된 정보의 삽입 등 여러가지 공격으로부터 방어를 해야 할 필요가 있다. 이를 위한 기본적인 방법은 암호화 방법, 스위칭 기법 등을 서술 한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2015

Body area networks (BANs) have emerged as an enabling technique for e-healthcare systems, which can be used to continuously and remotely monitor patients' health. In BANs, the data of a patient's vital body functions and movements can be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and sent using shortrange wireless communication techniques. Due to the shared wireless medium between the sensors in BANs, it may be possible to have malicious attacks on e-healthcare systems. The security and privacy issues of BANs are becoming more and more important. To provide secure and correct association of a group of sensors with a patient and satisfy the requirements of data confidentiality and integrity in BANs, we propose a novel enhanced secure sensor association and key management protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography and hash chains. The authentication procedure and group key generation are very simple and efficient. Therefore, our protocol can be easily implemented in the power and resource constrained sensor nodes in BANs. From a comparison of results, furthermore, we can conclude that the proposed protocol dramatically reduces the computation and communication cost for the authentication and key derivation compared with previous protocols. We believe that our protocol is attractive in the application of BANs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.674-683
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• 2021

A trust-aware secure routing protocol (TSRP) for wireless sensor networks is proposed in this paper to defend against varieties of attacks. First, each node calculates the comprehensive trust values of its neighbors based on direct trust value, indirect trust value, volatilization factor, and residual energy to defend against black hole, selective forwarding, wormhole, hello flood, and sinkhole attacks. Second, any source node that needs to send data forwards a routing request packet to its neighbors in multi-path mode, and this continues until the sink at the end is reached. Finally, the sink finds the optimal path based on the path's comprehensive trust values, transmission distance, and hop count by analyzing the received packets. Simulation results show that TSRP has lower network latency, smaller packet loss rate, and lower average network energy consumption than ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing and trust based secure routing protocol.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2007년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.1100-1101
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• 2007

This paper proposes an efficient mechanism of node membership verification within the groups of sensors in a wireless sensor network (WSN). We utilize one-way accumulator to check the memberships of the legitimate nodes in a secure way. Our scheme also supports the addition and deletion of nodes in the groups in the network. Our analysis shows that, our scheme could be well-suited for the resource constrained sensors in a sensor network and it provides a lightweight mechanism for secure node membership verification in WSN.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.422-429
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• 2013

Advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have enabled small and low-cost sensors with the capability of sensing various types of physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless communication. In the WSN, the sensor nodes have a limited transmission range and their processing and storage capabilities as well as their energy resources are limited. A triple umpiring system has already been proved for its better performance in WSNs. The clustering technique is effective in prolonging the lifetime of the WSN. In this study, we have modified the ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing by incorporating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based dynamic clustering. The proposed scheme, which is an efficient and secure routing protocol for wireless sensor networks through SNR-based dynamic clustering (ESRPSDC) mechanisms, can partition the nodes into clusters and select the cluster head (CH) among the nodes based on the energy, and non CH nodes join with a specific CH based on the SNR values. Error recovery has been implemented during the inter-cluster routing in order to avoid end-to-end error recovery. Security has been achieved by isolating the malicious nodes using sink-based routing pattern analysis. Extensive investigation studies using a global mobile simulator have shown that this hybrid ESRP significantly improves the energy efficiency and packet reception rate as compared with the SNR unaware routing algorithms such as the low energy aware adaptive clustering hierarchy and power efficient gathering in sensor information systems.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2010

Secure routing is vital to the acceptance and use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for many applications. However, providing secure routing in WSNs is a challenging task due to the inherently constrained capabilities of sensor nodes. Although a wide variety of routing protocols have been proposed for WSNs, most do not take security into account as a main goal. Routing attacks can have devastating effects on WSNs and present a major challenge when designing robust security mechanisms for WSNs. In this paper, we examine some of the most common routing attacks in WSNs. In particular, we focus on the wormhole routing attack in some detail. A variety of countermeasures have been proposed in the literature for such attacks. However, most of these countermeasures suffer from flaws that essentially render them ineffective for use in large scale WSN deployments. Due to the inherent constraints found in WSNs, there is a need for lightweight and robust security mechanisms. The examination of the wormhole routing attack and some of the proposed countermeasures makes it evident that it is extremely difficult to retrofit existing protocols with defenses against routing attacks. It is suggested that one of the ways to approach this rich field of research problems in WSNs could be to carefully design new routing protocols in which attacks such as wormholes can be rendered meaningless.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.75-88
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• 2011

센서네트워크 환경에서 멀티캐스트는 베이스스테이션이 다수의 센서노드에게 명령 또는 쿼리를 전송할 때 사용된다. 멜티캐스트 메시지를 효율적으로 안전하게 전송하기 위하여 그룹키를 이용한 암호화 통신이 요구되며, 포획당한 노드로 인한 그룹키 노출에 강건한 그룹키 갱신기법이 필요하다. 이를 위하여 애드 혹 네트워크 환경에서 안전한 그룹키 갱신 기법이 오랫동안 연구되었다. 하지만 기존에 연구된 기법들은 센서네트워크에 적합하게 설계되지 않았으며, 안전한 그룹키 갱신하기 위한 효과적인 방법이 제안되지 못하였다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 그룹에 속한 센서노드만 새로운 그룹키 생성할 수 있는 방법을 통해서 기존의 기법에 비해 높은 안전성을 가지는 멀티캐스트 그룹키 갱신 기법을 제안한다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2016

무선 센서 네트워크은 폭넓은 다양한 응용에서 경제적으로 성공할 수 있는 모니터링 솔루션이다. 그러나 악의적이거나 감시하는 사람이 없는 환경에서 침입을 인식하고 방지하며 안전하고 에너지 효율적인 것을 보장하는 네트워크를 통한 정보의 안전한 전송은 주된 도전이다. 이에 따라, 이 논문은 집적된 데이터의 무결성, 인증성과 비밀성을 보장하기 위하여 안전한 무선 센서 네트워크에 필수적인 보호를 포함하는 분산 클러스터링 프로세스를 제안한다. 안전한 키 관리 스킴을 위하여 대칭형과 비대칭형 키의 전단계 분산의 개념을 사용하고, 클러스터 내에 있는 각 센서 노드가 배치되기 전에 암호화를 위한 전단계 분산 매개변수를 사용하는 센서 네트워크 토폴로지에 기초한 계층적 클러스터에 대한 상세한 스킴에 대하여 기술한다. 마지막으로 무선 센서 네트워크에서 제안된 스킴의 성능 시험 결과를 보인다.