Article in Proceedings INPROC-2004-03

BibliographyWacker, Arno; Heiber, Timo; Cermann, Holger: A Key-Distribution Scheme for Wireless Home Automation Networks.
In: Proceedings of the first IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference: CCNC04; January 5-8, 2004.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: IEEE Communications Society, January 5, 2004.
ISBN: 0-7803-8145-9.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationIEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC2004)
CR-SchemaC.2.0 (Computer-Communication Networks, General)
C.2.1 (Network Architecture and Design)
C.2.2 (Network Protocols)
C.3 (Special-Purpose and Application-Based Systems)
G.2.2 (Discrete Mathematics Graph Theory)
Keywordswireless, ad-hoc networks, security, key-distribution
Abstract

Wireless home automation networks are one example of how wireless technologies may soon become part of our daily life, yet security in existing products is woefully inadequate. An important problem in this area is the question of secure key distribution. In this paper we present a key-distribution scheme geared towards home automation networks, but applicable to other networks with related properties as well. Our approach uses a decentralized scheme that is designed to work on resource-poor devices, allows easy addition and removal of devices and limits the workload on the end user while guaranteeing the secrecy of the exchanged keys even in the presence of subverted nodes.

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ContactArno Wacker Arno.Wacker@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateJanuary 22, 2004
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