ID list forwarding free confidentiality preserving data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

L Zhu; Z Yang; Mingzhong Wang; M Li

doi:10.1155/2013/241261

Back

ID list forwarding free confidentiality preserving data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

Journal article

Open access

Peer reviewed

ID list forwarding free confidentiality preserving data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

L Zhu, Z Yang, Mingzhong Wang and M Li

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol.2013, 241261

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/241261

Files and links (2)

pdf

PDF - Published Version (Open Access)1.70 MBDownload View

Published VersionPDF - Published Version (Open Access)CC BY V4.0, Open Access

url

https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/241261View

Published Version

Abstract

aggregation process

communication overheads

data confidentiality

environmental data

in-network processing

network lifetime

security reduction

wireless sensor network (WSNs)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are composed of sensor nodes with limited energy which is difficult to replenish. Data aggregation is considered to help reduce communication overhead with in-network processing, thus minimizing energy consumption and maximizing network lifetime. Meanwhile, it comes with challenges for data confidentiality protection. Many existing confidentiality preserving aggregation protocols have to transfer list of sensors' ID for base station to explicitly tell which sensor nodes have actually provided measurement. However, forwarding a large number of node IDs brings overwhelming extra communication overhead. In this paper, we propose provably secure aggregation scheme perturbation-based efficient confidentiality preserving protocol (PEC2P) that allows efficient aggregation of perturbed data without transferring any ID information. In general, environmental data is confined to a certain range; hence, we utilize this feature and design an algorithm to help powerful base station retrieve the ID of reporting nodes. We analyze the accuracy of PEC2P and conclude that base station can retrieve the sum of environmental data with an overwhelming probability. We also prove that PEC2P is CPA secure by security reduction. Experiment results demonstrate that PEC2P significantly reduces node congestion (especially for the root node) during aggregation process in comparison with the existing protocols. © 2013 Liehuang Zhu et al.

Details

Title: ID list forwarding free confidentiality preserving data aggregation for wireless sensor networks
Authors: L Zhu (Author) - Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Z Yang (Author) - Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Mingzhong Wang (Author) - Beijing Institute of Technology, China
M Li (Author) - Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Publication details: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Vol.2013, 241261; 14
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Date published: 2013
DOI: 10.1155/2013/241261
ISSN: 1550-1329
Copyright note: Copyright © 2013 Liehuang Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449135602621
Output Type: Journal article

Metrics

30 File views/ downloads

588 Record Views

1 Times Cited - Web of Science

InCites Highlights

These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output

Web Of Science research areas: Computer Science, Information Systems; Telecommunications