Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network
Clustering technology is one of the crucial technologies to prolong the lifetime in wireless sensor networks. However, most cluster schemes choose cluster head randomly to send data without considering load balancing and security. In addition, some cluster heads in the highly active area may be over...
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| description | Clustering technology is one of the crucial technologies to prolong the lifetime in wireless sensor networks. However, most cluster schemes choose cluster head randomly to send data without considering load balancing and security. In addition, some cluster heads in the highly active area may be overloaded, while others in the low active area may be overloaded, which may easily lead to extreme imbalance in task allocation. Our research on relevant literature shows that the existing authentication schemes do not fully consider the load balancing of cluster heads, while the load balancing schemes ignore the security authentication of cluster heads. Therefore, this article effectively combines load balancing and security verification, and proposes a lightweight load balancing and verification scheme (secure load and energy balancing) based on clustered wireless sensor networks. Secure load and energy balancing implements cluster head’s authentication and confidentiality and integrity of all messages in load balancing. This scheme not only effectively maintains the energy balance of the whole network but also successfully improves the security overhead, thus prolonging the network lifetime. The simulation results show that compared with other similar schemes, this scheme has higher packet forwarding rate, longer network life, and lower overhead. This further proves that the scheme is energy-saving, safe, dynamic, stable, and sustainable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b86db76a95004996af811fcfa346079b2023-09-03T03:04:53ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772021-02-011710.1177/1550147720980326Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor networkJiliang Zhou0Ziqiang Lin1Institute of Information, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, Loudi, ChinaNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaClustering technology is one of the crucial technologies to prolong the lifetime in wireless sensor networks. However, most cluster schemes choose cluster head randomly to send data without considering load balancing and security. In addition, some cluster heads in the highly active area may be overloaded, while others in the low active area may be overloaded, which may easily lead to extreme imbalance in task allocation. Our research on relevant literature shows that the existing authentication schemes do not fully consider the load balancing of cluster heads, while the load balancing schemes ignore the security authentication of cluster heads. Therefore, this article effectively combines load balancing and security verification, and proposes a lightweight load balancing and verification scheme (secure load and energy balancing) based on clustered wireless sensor networks. Secure load and energy balancing implements cluster head’s authentication and confidentiality and integrity of all messages in load balancing. This scheme not only effectively maintains the energy balance of the whole network but also successfully improves the security overhead, thus prolonging the network lifetime. The simulation results show that compared with other similar schemes, this scheme has higher packet forwarding rate, longer network life, and lower overhead. This further proves that the scheme is energy-saving, safe, dynamic, stable, and sustainable.https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147720980326 |
| spellingShingle | Jiliang Zhou Ziqiang Lin Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network |
| title_full | Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network |
| title_fullStr | Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network |
| title_short | Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network |
| title_sort | lightweight load balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster based wireless sensor network |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147720980326 |
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