SDTP+: Securing a distributed transport protocol for WSNs using Merkle trees and Hash chains

Amit Dvir; Levente Buttyan; Ta Vinh Thong

doi:10.1109/ICC.2013.6654831

SDTP+: Securing a distributed transport protocol for WSNs using Merkle trees and Hash chains

Amit Dvir
, Levente Buttyan
, Ta Vinh Thong

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7 Scopus citations

Abstract

Transport protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are designed to fulfill both reliability and energy efficiency requirements. Distributed Transport for Sensor Networks (DTSN) [1] is one of the most promising transport protocols designed for WSNs because of its effectiveness; however, it does not address any security issues, hence it is vulnerable to many attacks. The first secure transport protocol for WSN was the secure distributed transport protocol (SDTP) [2], which is a security extension of DTSN. Unfortunately, it turns out that the security methods provided by SDTP are not sufficient; some tricky attacks get around the protection mechanism. In this paper, we describe the security gaps in the SDTP protocol, and we introduce SDTP⁺ for patching the weaknesses. We show that SDTP⁺ resists attacks on reliability and energy efficiency of the protocol, and also present an overhead analysis for showing its effectiveness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	2073-2078
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781467331227
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2013.6654831
State	Published - 1 Jan 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013 - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 9 Jun 2013 → 13 Jun 2013

Publication series

Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)	1550-3607

Conference

Conference	2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
Country/Territory	Hungary
City	Budapest
Period	9/06/13 → 13/06/13

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

DTSN
Distributed Transport Protocol
Hash Chain
Merkle-Tree
SDTP
WSN

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Dvir, A., Buttyan, L., & Thong, T. V. (2013). SDTP+: Securing a distributed transport protocol for WSNs using Merkle trees and Hash chains. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013 (pp. 2073-2078). Article 6654831 (IEEE International Conference on Communications). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2013.6654831

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Dvir, A, Buttyan, L & Thong, TV 2013, SDTP+: Securing a distributed transport protocol for WSNs using Merkle trees and Hash chains. in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013., 6654831, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 2073-2078, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, 9/06/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2013.6654831

SDTP+: Securing a distributed transport protocol for WSNs using Merkle trees and Hash chains. / Dvir, Amit; Buttyan, Levente; Thong, Ta Vinh.
2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013. p. 2073-2078 6654831 (IEEE International Conference on Communications).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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