• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1436-1457
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• 2018

Secure routing services in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are essential, especially in mission critical fields such as the military and in medical applications. Additionally, they play a vital role in the current and future Internet of Things (IoT) services. Lightness and efficiency of a routing protocol are not the only requirements that guarantee success; security assurance also needs to be enforced. This paper proposes a Secure-Fuzzy Energy Aware Routing Protocol (S-FEAR) for WSNs. S-FEAR applies a security model to an existing energy efficient FEAR protocol. As part of this research, the S-FEAR protocol has been analyzed in terms of the communication and processing costs associated with building and applying this model, regardless of the security techniques used. Moreover, the Qualnet network simulator was used to implement both FEAR and S-FEAR after carefully selecting the following security techniques to achieve both authentication and data integrity: the Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code (CBC-MAC) and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). The performance of both protocols was assessed in terms of complexity and energy consumption. The results reveal that achieving authentication and data integrity successfully excluded all attackers from the network topology regardless of the percentage of attackers. Consequently, the constructed topology is secure and thus, safe data transmission over the network is ensured. Simulation results show that using CBC-MAC for example, costs 0.00064% of network energy while ECDSA costs about 0.0091%. On the other hand, attacks cost the network about 4.7 times the cost of applying these techniques.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권7호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2006

무선 센서 네트워크(Wireless Sensor Network, WSN)는 작고 값이 싸지만 매우 제한된 자원을 가진 많은 수의 센서로 구성된다. 이러한 자원의 부종으로 인하여 공개키 암호화방식은 WSN에 사용하기 적합하지 않으며, 비밀키 암호화방식을 적용시키기 위하여는 키 관리와 선분배 기법이 필요하다. 많은 키 선분배 기법이 제안되었지만 대부분의 이러한 기법은 실제 WSN의 환경을 충분히 고려하지 않고 있다. 이 논문에서는 적당한 통신량과 연결을 고려한 WSN을 위하여 계층적 그리드(Grid)를 기반으로 하는 보안 프레임워크를 제안한다. 프레임워크의 보안성을 검증하기 위하여 간단한 키 개체 분배 기법을 적용하였으며, WSN에서 가능한 보안 위협에 대하여 분석하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.2940-2955
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose aggregate signcryption for achieving data security in UWSNs. The main challenge of these networks established in sensitive environments is offline sink visiting. Moreover, the sensors must retain collected data for long enough time to offload them onto the itinerant sink. Thus, the unattended nature of data collection intervals might offer the adversary the opportunity to apply various attacks without detection. In this paper, employing low order operations (in time and space), we propose a new secure scheme in which various security goals such as confidentiality (through encrypting), authentication and integrity (through signing) are achieved. In addition, the aggregation process of our scheme reduces the space and communication overheads both for sensors and sink, i.e. the proposed technique efficiently enables the sensors and sink to protect, verify and recover all the related data. We further compare our scheme with the best alternative work in the literature.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.599-606
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• 2009

For many mission-critical related wireless sensor network applications such as military and homeland security, user's access restriction is necessary to be enforced by access control mechanisms for different access rights. Public key-based access control schemes are more attractive than symmetric-key based approaches due to high scalability, low memory requirement, easy key-addition/revocation for a new node, and no key predistribution requirement. Although Wang et al. recently introduced a promising access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), it is still burdensome for sensors and has several security limitations (it does not provide mutual authentication and is strictly vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks). This paper presents an energy-efficient access control scheme based on ECC to overcome these problems and more importantly to provide dominant energy-efficiency. Through analysis and simulation based evaluations, we show that the proposed scheme overcomes the security problems and has far better energy-efficiency compared to current scheme proposed byWang et al.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.5-24
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• 2010

Data fusion is an attractive technology because it allows various trade-offs related to performance metrics, e.g., energy, latency, accuracy, fault-tolerance and security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Under a complicated environment, each sensor node must be equipped with more than one type of sensor module to monitor multi-targets, so that the complexity for the fusion process is increased due to the existence of various physical attributes. In this paper, we first investigate the process and performance of multi-attribute fusion in data gathering of WSNs, and then propose a self-adaptive threshold method to balance the different change rates of each attributive data. Furthermore, we present a method to measure the energy-conservation efficiency of multi-attribute fusion. Based on our proposed methods, we design a novel energy equilibrium routing method for WSNs, viz., multi-attribute fusion tree (MAFT). Simulation results demonstrate that MAFT achieves very good performance in terms of the network lifetime.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.5556-5573
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• 2017

As a main component of Internet of Things (IoTs), the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely applied to various areas, including environment monitoring, health monitoring of human body, farming, commercial manufacture, reconnaissance mission in military, and calamity alert etc. Meanwhile, the privacy concerns also arise when the users are required to get the real-time data from the sensor nodes directly. To solve this problem, several user authentication and key agreement schemes with a smart card and a password have been proposed in the past years. However, these schemes are vulnerable to some attacks such as offline password guessing attack, user impersonation attack by using attacker's own smart card, sensor node impersonation attack and gateway node bypassing attack. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme which can resist a wide variety of attacks in WSNs. Cryptanalysis and performance analysis show that our scheme can solve the weaknesses of previously proposed schemes and enhance security requirements while maintaining low computational cost.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.1079-1082
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• 2005

In this paper, a secure system is studied and designed for omenetworking middleware based on sensor network security algorithm. Many sensor networks have mission-critical tasks, so it is clear that security needs to be taken into account at design procedure. First, We study homenetworking middleware model in Jini. And we design a security system is applied by SPINS algorithm for moddleware model. Then we firgure out proper secrecy, authentication, broadcast authentication mechanisms in this model.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.556-563
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• 2009

A side channel analysis is a very efficient attack against small devices such as smart cards and wireless sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose an efficient key detection method using a peak selection algorithm in order to find the advanced encryption standard secret key from electromagnetic signals. The proposed method is applied to a correlation electromagnetic analysis (CEMA) attack against a wireless sensor node. Our approach results in increase in the correlation coefficient in comparison with the general CEMA. The experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently and reliably uncover the entire 128-bit key with a small number of traces, whereas some extant methods can reveal only partial subkeys by using a large number of traces in the same conditions.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.315-318
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• 2005

Lots of researches have been focusing on ubiquitous computing which means wherever, whenever, whatever the required information must be accessible. In ubiquitous computing environment, ubiquitous sensor network (USN) is the basis technology for gathering and transferring the required information. However sensor network characteristically has more severe vulnerability than the existing networks do. The paper presents operation of secure protocols for delivering information in secure in ubiquitous computing environment and show improvement of the secure transferring protocol.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 센서 네트워크 기반의 컴퓨팅 기술이 혼합된, 생체 신호 측정 시스템을 제안한다. 지그비 RF 기술과 임베디드 하드웨어 기술의 조합을 통하여, 병원의 환자관리 센터는 환자들의 비상 상황 또는 일상 상태에 관한 정보를 개별적으로 또는 동시에 수신함으로서, 환자의 정상적인 생활 보조 및 응급 상황에 신속히 대처할 수 있다. 또한 제안된 시스템의 저전력 및 기타 요구 사항을 만족시키기 위하여 지그비 기반의 RF를 사용한다. 이는 제안된 호출 시스템의 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 최적의 선택이라 할 수 있다.