• Corpus ID: 7214406

Secure Cluster Based Energy Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

@inproceedings{Mallanda2004SecureCB,
  title={Secure Cluster Based Energy Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks},
  author={Cariappa Mallanda and Shivakumar Basavaraju and Archit Kulshrestha and Rajgopal Kannan and Arjan Durresi and S. Sitharama Iyengar},
  booktitle={International Conference on Wireless Networks},
  year={2004}
}

• C. Mallanda, S. Basavaraju, +3 authors S. Iyengar
• Published in
  International Conference on…
  2004
• Computer Science

Present research on wireless sensor networks has focused on routing and security independently. In this paper, we present a Secure, Cluster-based, Energy Aware Routing (SCEAR) scheme that provides both a hierarchal energy aware routing and a secure environment for communication. In our approach, the network is divided into clusters with a cluster-head that aggregates the information and securely sends this information to the global base station over a multi-hop network of cluster-heads. Security is incorporated using Identity based public key cryptography and symmetric key cryptography. Using these techniques, our protocol provides a flexible security mechanism for the resource constrained sensor network. The proposed scheme combines security and routing in a more scalable manner in comparison to other approaches. Simulation results have shown that the energy overhead of security is minimal and the scheme balances the energy consumption across the network.