WSNS'07
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (IEEE WSNS 2007)

held in conjunction with
4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2007)

October 8, 2007, Pisa, Italy

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Workshop Co-Chairs

Dr. Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen

Dr. Yong Guan, Iowa State University

Dr. Zhen Jiang, West Chester University

Technical Program
For the final program, we accepted 11 papers out of 33 regular submissions. Each presentation will receive a time slot of 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Please help us by preparing your presentations accordingly. For the presentations, a projector will be available - please bring your own notebook. In order to foster intensive discussions, a final "discussion session" is scheduled to summarize the workshop presentations and to discuss further research ideas.

Session 1: Opening session 9:00 - 10:20 am
Session chair: Zhen Jiang

  • Welcome by the workshop chairs
    Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS) - A Retrospection
    Falko Dressler, Yong Guan, and Zhen Jiang
  • Keynote speech
    Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Dharma Agrawal

    Abstract [PDF]
    Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being used in many new applications due to ease of deployment. These sensors are tiny devices with limited resources and all computing devices including wireless radio operate using battery power. Due to resource constraints, large size and lack of infrastructure support, providing secured communication in a WSN has become a critical issue. There are two approaches of asymmetric and symmetric key approaches. As asymmetric cryptography is very complicated, this talk provides an overview of nontrivial key distribution and management schemes in WSNs.
    One of the efficient and applicable methods is to randomly pre-distribute and preload secret keys into sensor nodes. But it suffers from the node capture attack, in which the compromised key can be used to crack communications between non-compromised nodes. Based on random graph theory, symmetric matrix operation, or polynomial calculations, several key pre-distribution mechanisms have been discussed in the literature, each of them has relative advantages and limitations. Finally, we introduce an efficient pairwise key establishment and management which can support a large network with fewer preloaded keys in each sensor node. Better network resilience against node capture attack, lower computational cost and communication overhead can also be achieved. Efficient key management is still an open problem and more research efforts are needed to find a better security solution for WSNs.


Session 2: Authentication 10:20 - 10:45 am
Session chair: Zhen Jiang
  • n-LQA: n-Layers Query Authentication in Sensor Networks
    Ioana Rodhe, Christian Rohner, and Andreas Achtzehn

Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15 am

Session 3: Key management and security analysis 11:15 - 1:00 pm
Session chair: Edith Ngai

  • ARPD: Asynchronous random key predistribution in the LEAP framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Andreas Achtzehn, Christian Rohner, and Ioana Rodhe
  • A Level-based Key Management for both In-Network Processing and Mobility in WSNs
    Kyeong Tae Kim and R. S. Ramakrishna
  • Authenticated key exchange with group support for wireless sensor networks
    Petr Svenda and Vaclav Matyas
  • Formal Analysis of Sensor Network Encryption Protocol (SNEP)
    Llanos Tobarra, Diego Cazorla, and Fernando Cuartero

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Session 4: Routing and clustering 2:00 - 3:45 pm
Session chair: Falko Dressler

  • The Security Proof of a Link-state Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Gergely Acs, Levente Buttyan, and Istvan Vajda
  • Topology Control for Secured Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Zhen Jiang, Jie Wu, Afrand Agah, and Bin Lu
  • Secure k-Connectivity Properties of Wireless Sensor Networks
    Yee Wei Law, Li-Hsing Yen, Roberto Di Pietro, Marimuthu Palaniswami
  • Assessment of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case Study for Security Algorithms
    Chih-Chun Chang, David Nagel, and Sead Muftic

Coffee break 3:45 - 4:15 pm

Session 5: Intrusion detection 4:15 - 5:10 pm
Session chair: Yee Wei Law

  • Distributed Node Revocation based on Cooperative Security
    Oscar Garcia Morchon and Heribert Baldus
  • Impact of Packet Injection Models on Misbehaviour Detection Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Sven Schaust, Martin Drozda, and Helena Szczerbicka
Final discusssions 5:10 - 6:00 pm
Moderation: WSNS co-chairs
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