Title: An efficient fine-grained access control scheme for hierarchical wireless sensor networks

Authors: Santanu Chatterjee; Sandip Roy; Samiran Chattopadhyay

Addresses: Research Center Imarat (RCI), Defence Research and Development Organization, Hyderabad 500 069, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Asansol Engineering College, Asansol 713305, WB, India ' Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700098, India

Abstract: Fine-grained access control is used to assign unique access privilege to a particular user for accessing real-time data directly from the nodes inside wireless sensor network (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a new fine-grained access control scheme based on key policy attribute based encryption (KP-ABE) suitable for hierarchical WSNs. The protocol provides fine-grained access control with authentication along with efficient user revocation and new node deployment policy. Instead of being quite lightweight in nature, the scheme resists many active and passive security attacks. For formal authentication proof and simulation we use BAN logic and widely accepted AVISPA model checkers respectively.

Keywords: ABE; attribute-based encryption; fine-grained access control; bilinear maps; HWSNs; hierarchical WSNs; AVISPA; automated validation of internet security protocols and applications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.095474

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2018 Vol.29 No.3, pp.161 - 180

Received: 28 Jul 2015
Accepted: 28 Jun 2016
Published online: 08 Oct 2018 *

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