Extending Certificateless Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Novel Insight
Authentication in low power devices is still considered to be an
expensive process. CertificateLess Signature is one of the
approaches to facilitate authentication in these devices. Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs) are such low power inexpensive
networks, which needs authentication of message. In this paper, a
CertificateLess Signature proposed by Gong et al. is analyzed
and an approach is being proposed to reduce the computation
cost by more than 50 percent. The main benefits of our approach
are (i) some computations can be performed by Key Generation
Center (KGC) instead of sensor node (ii) signature size is merely
increased a few bytes but saves a lot computation in multi-hop
networks (iii) balance of computations on all sensor nodes and
hence, increases the overall network lifetime.
Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks, Certificateless cryptography, Digital Signature.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma received his M.E degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India. He had received M. Sc. as well as B. Sc. degree from CCS University, Meerut, India. He is pursuing Ph.D from Thapar University, Patiala,India. He has published over 20 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). He is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. He is a member of IEEE. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, cryptography.
Suman Bala
Suman Bala received her M.E degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India. She had received B.Tech degree from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India. She is pursuing Ph.D from Thapar University, Patiala, India. She has published over 20 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). She is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. She is a member of ACM. Her research interests include wireless sensor networks, cryptography and key management.
Anil K Verma
Anil K. Verma is currently working as Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Thapar University, Patiala in Punjab (INDIA). He received his B.S. and M.S. in 1991 and 2001 respectively, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. He has worked as Lecturer at M.M.M. Engg. College, Gorakhpur from 1991 to 1996. From 1996 he is associated with the same University. He has been a visiting faculty to many institutions. He has published over 80 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). He is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. He is a senior member (ACM), LMCSI (Mumbai), GMAIMA (New Delhi). He is a certified software quality auditor by MoCIT, Govt. of India. His main areas of interests are: Programming Languages, Soft Computing, Bioinformatics and Computer Networks. His research interests include wireless networks, routing algorithms and securing ad hoc networks.
Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma received his M.E degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India. He had received M. Sc. as well as B. Sc. degree from CCS University, Meerut, India. He is pursuing Ph.D from Thapar University, Patiala,India. He has published over 20 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). He is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. He is a member of IEEE. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, cryptography.
Suman Bala
Suman Bala received her M.E degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India. She had received B.Tech degree from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India. She is pursuing Ph.D from Thapar University, Patiala, India. She has published over 20 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). She is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. She is a member of ACM. Her research interests include wireless sensor networks, cryptography and key management.
Anil K Verma
Anil K. Verma is currently working as Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Thapar University, Patiala in Punjab (INDIA). He received his B.S. and M.S. in 1991 and 2001 respectively, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. He has worked as Lecturer at M.M.M. Engg. College, Gorakhpur from 1991 to 1996. From 1996 he is associated with the same University. He has been a visiting faculty to many institutions. He has published over 80 papers in referred journals and conferences (India and Abroad). He is member of various program committees for different International/National Conferences and is on the review board of various journals. He is a senior member (ACM), LMCSI (Mumbai), GMAIMA (New Delhi). He is a certified software quality auditor by MoCIT, Govt. of India. His main areas of interests are: Programming Languages, Soft Computing, Bioinformatics and Computer Networks. His research interests include wireless networks, routing algorithms and securing ad hoc networks.
