A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN

The vast production of resource-constrained wireless communication devices and the development of various techniques in recent years opens room for security concerns to overcome potential attacks. However, efficient methods are needed to reduce the trade-off between communication and computation com...

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Main Authors: Kollu Siva Sai, Radhakrishna Bhat, Manjunath Hegde, J. Andrew
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10209168/
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Radhakrishna Bhat
Manjunath Hegde
J. Andrew
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description The vast production of resource-constrained wireless communication devices and the development of various techniques in recent years opens room for security concerns to overcome potential attacks. However, efficient methods are needed to reduce the trade-off between communication and computation complexities in resource-constrained wireless device communication. In this paper, we propose a lightweight fault-tolerant secure data communication framework that consists of Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) secure communication scheme, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) based secure communication scheme and Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES) based authentication scheme for wireless sensor network communication using Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel program platform. Further, we have implemented the proposed framework for a single sink node (scenario-1) and all sink nodes (scenario-2) scenarios with parallel threads using Linux Pthreads to improve the total execution time. It is observed that the overall execution time performance of ECC is better in scenario-2 whereas the performance of ECDH is better in scenario-1 when the number of sensors is greater than 200. It is also observed that enabling Linux Pthreads in ECC implementation guarantees the parallel execution of decryption process and the reduction in the overall execution time in both scenarios. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed framework in terms of execution time and memory use over simulated wireless network environments, making the proposed framework suitable for fault-tolerant wireless sensor communication applications.
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spelling doaj.art-bf7c98eaaad341fb94be7825dbf5b4152023-08-15T23:01:06ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111833648337610.1109/ACCESS.2023.330225110209168A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSNKollu Siva Sai0Radhakrishna Bhat1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2309-0745Manjunath Hegde2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4264-9532J. Andrew3Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaDepartment of Data Science and Computer Applications, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, IndiaThe vast production of resource-constrained wireless communication devices and the development of various techniques in recent years opens room for security concerns to overcome potential attacks. However, efficient methods are needed to reduce the trade-off between communication and computation complexities in resource-constrained wireless device communication. In this paper, we propose a lightweight fault-tolerant secure data communication framework that consists of Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) secure communication scheme, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) based secure communication scheme and Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES) based authentication scheme for wireless sensor network communication using Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel program platform. Further, we have implemented the proposed framework for a single sink node (scenario-1) and all sink nodes (scenario-2) scenarios with parallel threads using Linux Pthreads to improve the total execution time. It is observed that the overall execution time performance of ECC is better in scenario-2 whereas the performance of ECDH is better in scenario-1 when the number of sensors is greater than 200. It is also observed that enabling Linux Pthreads in ECC implementation guarantees the parallel execution of decryption process and the reduction in the overall execution time in both scenarios. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed framework in terms of execution time and memory use over simulated wireless network environments, making the proposed framework suitable for fault-tolerant wireless sensor communication applications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10209168/Wireless sensor networksfault-tolerant communicationelliptic curve cryptographylightweight authenticationthe Internet of Thingskey management
spellingShingle Kollu Siva Sai
Radhakrishna Bhat
Manjunath Hegde
J. Andrew
A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
IEEE Access
Wireless sensor networks
fault-tolerant communication
elliptic curve cryptography
lightweight authentication
the Internet of Things
key management
title A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
title_full A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
title_fullStr A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
title_full_unstemmed A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
title_short A Lightweight Authentication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed WSN
title_sort lightweight authentication framework for fault tolerant distributed wsn
topic Wireless sensor networks
fault-tolerant communication
elliptic curve cryptography
lightweight authentication
the Internet of Things
key management
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10209168/
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