Two-way authentication for enhancing security in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Abstract

In wireless sensor networks, each sensor node nowadays is responsible for the exchange of sensory data with high performance in terms of QoS such as network throughput and delay under energy restrictions. Besides network performance, network security plays an important role in designing a wireless sensor network. One of current challenges is to design efficiently lightweight security methods to achieve highly secured transmissions and prolonged network lifetime. In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end two-way authentication scheme for WSNs under the heterogeneous assumption. By drawing on the benefit of lightweight homomorphic encryption and watermark data, numerical evaluations and security analysis show that our proposed method can prolong the network lifetime with the enhancement in network security.