Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2008, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (1): 175-183.

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RKP based secure tracking in wireless sensor networks

Wang Jiahao1, Qin Zhiguang1, Geng Ji1 & Wang Shengkun2   

  1. 1. Coll. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610054, P.R. China;
    2. Library, Taiyuan Univ. of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, P.R. China
  • Online:2008-02-21 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

To enhancing the wireless sensor network’s security in target tracking and locating application, this article proposes a tracking cluster based mobile cluster distributed group rekeying protocol (MCDGR). Based on the given sensitivity, sensors can locate the moving object in the monitored area and form a tracking cluster around it. This tracking cluster can follow the target logically, process data on the target and report to the sink node, and thus achieve the tracking function. We introduce a multi-path reinforcement scheme, q-composition scheme and one-way cryptographic hash function based random key predistribution algorithm (RKP), which can guarantee a high accuracy and security and a low energy consumption on the same time in large-scale sensor networks.