Journal of Networks, Vol 7, No 7 (2012), 1009-1016, Jul 2012
doi:10.4304/jnw.7.7.1009-1016

(t, n) Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Cylinder Model in Wireless Sensor Networks

Haiping Huang, Hao Chen, Ruchuan Wang, Qian Mao, Renyuan Cheng

Abstract


Since the existence of characteristics of heterogeneity, limited energy, complexity and so forth, it turns into a research hot spot on the security mechanism of wireless sensor networks (WSN), especially the problems on the key management. On regard of the deficiency of extant secret sharing schemes, we develop a (t, n) threshold secret sharing scheme which is based on the cylinder model, including the procedures of master-key reconfiguration and sub-key updating. This scheme enables several nodes to be responsible for the security of key together, and by the mean time, we introduce a monitoring mechanism to improve the capability of anti-capturing. With the security theoretical analysis and the comparison with the performance on B-PCGR, GKD simulation experiment, it reveals that our scheme satisfies the security requirement of key management in wireless sensor networks, and can effectively reduce the cost on communication and computation.


Keywords


wireless sensor network; security; key management; (t, n) threshold scheme

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