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Signature-based Broadcast Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks (무선센서네트워크 환경에서 서명 기반 브로드캐스트 인증)

  • Koo, Woo-Kwon;Lee, Hwa-Seong;Kim, Yong-Ho;Hwang, Jung-Yeon;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.139-144
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    • 2007
  • A broadcast authentication is important and fundamental consideration for security in wireless sensor networks. Perigg et al suggests ${\mu}-TESLA$ used a key chain. But it is unavoidable the delay of time to authenticate packets. so it is hard to meet the property that most application of sensor are performed in real-time. To cope with these problems we propose an efficient broadcast authentication scheme which has no delay of time and provides re-keying mechanism. we also describe an analysis of security and efficiency for this scheme.

A Secure Network for Mobile Wireless Service

  • Peng, Kun
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.247-258
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    • 2013
  • A new secure network communication technique that has been designed for mobile wireless services, is presented in this paper. Its network services are mobile, distributed, seamless, and secure. We focus on the security of the scheme and achieve anonymity and reliability by using cryptographic techniques like blind signature and the electronic coin. The question we address in this paper is, "What is the best way to protect the privacy and anonymity of users of mobile wireless networks, especially in practical applications like e-commerce?" The new scheme is a flexible solution that answers this question. It efficiently protects user's privacy and anonymity in mobile wireless networks and supports various applications. It is employed to implement a secure e-auction as an example, in order to show its advantages in practical network applications.

Analyses of Characteristics of U-Healthcare System Based on Wireless Communication

  • Kim, Jung Tae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.337-342
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    • 2012
  • The medical industries are integrated with information technology with mobile devices and wireless communication. The advent of mobile healthcare systems can benefit patients and hospitals, by not only providing better quality of patient care, but also by reducing administrative and medical costs for both patients and hospitals. Security issues present an interesting research topic in wireless and pervasive healthcare networks. As information technology is developed, many organizations such as government agencies, public institutions, and corporations have employed an information system to enhance the efficiency of their work processes. For the past few years, healthcare organizations throughout the world have been adopting health information systems (HIS) based on the wireless network infrastructure. As a part of the wireless network, a mobile agent has been employed at a large scale in hospitals due to its outstanding mobility. Several vulnerabilities and security requirements related to mobile devices should be considered in implementing mobile services in the hospital environment. Secure authentication and protocols with a mobile agent for applying ubiquitous sensor networks in a healthcare system environment is proposed and analyzed in this paper.

A Safe and Reliable Method for Installing Wireless LAN into a Hospital

  • Hanada, Eisuke;Kudou, Takato
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.269-273
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    • 2011
  • A medical environment in which patient information can be accessed anytime / anywhere is called a "ubiquitous environment". To realize such an environment, the installation of wireless LAN is quite effective. Because the maximum radio wave output (antenna power) is set low in Japan, it has been easy to safely introduce wireless LAN into hospitals, to date mainly into large hospitals. However, if the placement of access points is not done properly, problems will occur, such as signals not reaching the desired area. A solution to these types of problems is to do an electromagnetic-field propagation simulation, which should be performed before construction of the hospital. It is also necessary to protect against security problems, such as signal interception or illegal access. We herein show our procedures for the safe introduction of wireless LAN.

QoS Evaluation of Streaming Media in the Secure Wireless Access Network (보안 무선엑세스 네트워크에서 스트리밍 미디어의 QoS 평가)

  • Kim, Jong-Woo;Shin, Seung-Wook;Lee, Sang-Duck;Han, Seung-Jo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.61-72
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    • 2007
  • With the increasing growth of Internet and wireless IP networks, Multimedia systems need to be envisaged as information resources where users can access anywhere and anytime. However, efficient services in these multimedia systems are open and challenging research problem due to user mobility, limited resources in wireless devices and expensive radio bandwidth. To implement multimedia services over heterogeneous network, the IP header compression scheme can be used for saving bandwidth. In this paper, we present an efficient solution for header compression, which is modified form of ECRTP. It shows an architectural framework adopting modified ECRTP when IP tunneling network using GRE over IPSec is implemented. We have conducted simulations in order to analyze the effects of different header compression techniques while delivering real-time services to the wireless access network through secured IP Network. The impacts on performance have been investigated through a series of experiments.

Impersonation Attacks on Anonymous User Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks (무선센서네트워크에서 익명의 사용자 인증과 키동의 기법에 대한 가장 공격)

  • Choi, Hae-Won;Kim, Hyunsung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.287-293
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    • 2016
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many applications and are deployed in a wide variety of areas. They are often deployed in potentially adverse or even hostile environment so that there are concerns on security issues in these WSNs. Recently, an anonymous user authentication and key agreement scheme (AUAKAS) was proposed based on symmetric cryptosystem in WSNs. It is claimed in AUAKAS that it assures security against different types of attacks including impersonation attacks. However, this paper shows that AUAKAS does not cope from user impersonation attack and gateway impersonation attack from the legally registered user on the gateway. The security analysis could guide the required features of the security scheme to be satisfied.

Analysis of Security Issues in Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles on the Move (이동 중인 전기자동차 무선충전의 보안위협 분석)

  • Rezeifar, Zeinab;Oh, Heekuck
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.941-951
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    • 2016
  • Limitation of fossil energy from one side and the efficiency of the electrical engine from another side motivate the industrials to encourage people for utilizing electric vehicles (EVs). To decrease the cost of EVs, the size of battery should be reduced which causes an inconvenient frequent recharging. Wireless charging is a solution for charging of electric vehicles on the move, but frequent charging causes to disclose users' location information. In this paper, we first propose an infrastructure for wireless charging of electric vehicles, and then we explain security issues that can be stated in this condition.

An Asymmetric Key-Based Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Haque, Md. Mokammel;Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan;Hong, Choong-Seon;Huh, Eui-Nam
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.265-277
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    • 2008
  • In spite of previous common assumptions about the incompatibility of public key cryptography (PKC) schemes with wireless sensor networks (WSNs), recent works have shown that they can be utilized for such networks in some manner. The major challenge of employing a PKC-based scheme in a wireless sensor network is posed by the resource limitations of the tiny sensors. Considering this sensor feature, in this paper we propose an efficient PKC-based security architecture with relatively lower resource requirements than those of previously proposed PKC schemes for WSN. In addition, our scheme aims to provide robust security in the network. Our security architecture comprises two basic components; a key handshaking scheme based on simple, linear operations and the derivation of a decryption key by a receiver node. Our architecture enables node-to-base-station and node-to-node secure communications. Analysis and simulation results show that our proposed architecture ensures a good level of security for network communications, and can be effectively implemented with the limited computational, memory, and energy budgets of current-generation sensor nodes.

Design and Analysis of the Wireless LAN Security Model using Block Cipher (블록 암호를 이용한 무선랜 보안 모델)

  • Kim, Jeom-Goo
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.25-30
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    • 2011
  • WEP is proposed networks dominate the market in the future wireless LAN encryption and authentication features to provide a secure protocol. However, WEP does not suggest a specific measures when generating the initial values used for the creation cipher text, the initial value problem because tile size and no-encryption if you have been raised about the safety issue. In this paper pointed out the vulnerabilities of WEP and the proposed improvement plan for this improvement was proposed based on the initial value to avoid re-creating the initial value of the system and using a block cipher in CBC mode for confidentiality and to provide mutual authentication New WLAN security model was proposed.

Secure and Efficient Key Management Scheme for Wireless Mesh Network (무선 메쉬망에서의 안전하고 효율적인 키관리 스킴)

  • Salam, Md. Iftekhar;Singh, Madhusudan;Lee, Sang-Gon;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.844-847
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    • 2011
  • Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a type of mobile ad-hoc network consists of wireless router, mobile clients and gateway which connects the network with the Internet. To provide security in the network it is required to encrypt the message sent among the communicating nodes in such way so that only legitimate user can retrieve the original data. Several security mechanisms have been proposed so far to enhance the security of WMN. However, there still exists a need for a comprehensive mechanism to prevent attacks in data communication. Considering the characteristic of mesh network, in this paper we proposed a public key cryptography based security architecture to establish a secure key agreement among communicating nodes in mesh network. The proposed security architecture consists of two major sections: client data protection and network data protection. Client data protection deals with the mutual authentication between the client and the access router and provide client to access router encryption for data confidentiality using standard IEEE 802.11i protocol. On the other hand, network data protection ensures encrypted routing and data transfer in the multi hop backbone network. For the network data protection, we used the pre-distributed public key to form a secure backbone infrastructure.