Title: Intrusion prevention with two-level user authentication in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Authors: Ismail Butun; Yufeng Wang; Young-seok Lee; Ravi Sankar

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33613, USA. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33613, USA. ' School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University, 68 miryong-dong, Kunsan, Chonbuk 573-701, South Korea. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33613, USA

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a secure and scalable user authentication scheme for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks to prevent intrusions. Our scheme employs both public and secret key cryptography schemes, such that it takes advantages from both. Our analysis and simulation results show that our scheme is not only more secure and scalable than existing secret key cryptography-based schemes, but also requires less processing power and provides higher energy efficiency than existing public key cryptography-based schemes.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; intrusion prevention; user authentication; PKC; public key cryptography; secret key cryptography; heterogeneous network architecture; wireless networks; network security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2012.050027

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2012 Vol.7 No.2, pp.107 - 121

Published online: 24 Oct 2012 *

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