Distributed data aggregation in wireless sensor network: With peer verification

Abstract

Data aggregation in wireless sensor network is implemented to reduce the communication overhead and to reduce bandwidth utilization. Data confidentiality requires the sensor node to transmit the data in a secure manner so that the adversary is unable to read the data or transmit false data even if it compromises some of the sensor nodes or aggregation node. In this paper a distributed aggregation protocol using homomorphic trapdoor permutation is proposed. This protocol distributes the responsibility of key generation, aggregation and verification to different nodes to reduce the overall power consumption of the sensor network. The peer verification scheme is also proposed as a part of the protocol. Peer verification ensures the authentication of the data and sender node in the network, by at least k peer nodes. Security of the proposed protocol is analyzed against passive and active adversary model. © © 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.