On Secure Communication over Wireless Sensor Networks

Stefan Rass, Michał Koza

2012

Abstract

This paper investigates (perfectly) secure message transmission over a wireless sensor network. Using a layered network architecture and a very simple form of routing, we show how to construct an arbitrarily secure communication channel over a given infrastructure of wireless devices. Our construction is computationally cheap and requires no cryptographic primitive beyond symmetric encryption on the channels. The security of the transmission can be made arbitrarily strong (in an information-theoretic sense).

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Rass S. and Koza M. (2012). On Secure Communication over Wireless Sensor Networks . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-24-2, pages 364-367. DOI: 10.5220/0004018403640367


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt12,
author={Stefan Rass and Michał Koza},
title={On Secure Communication over Wireless Sensor Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={364-367},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004018403640367},
isbn={978-989-8565-24-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)
TI - On Secure Communication over Wireless Sensor Networks
SN - 978-989-8565-24-2
AU - Rass S.
AU - Koza M.
PY - 2012
SP - 364
EP - 367
DO - 10.5220/0004018403640367