Secure Authentication and Session Key Management Scheme for Distributed Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are liable to attacks because of the complicated operations they perform especially the node deployment one. Security and energy consumption represent two big flaws in Wireless sensor networks and this paper is discussing how those networks can be secured against network violations and attacks while preserving the energy consumption in the network. Therefore, handling this problem using security schemes should ensure a moderate consumption of energy and for this target a secure hybrid session key management scheme is proposed where most of the operations taking place depend on cryptography and the heart of cryptography is the keys which are used to ensure that the energy consumption will remain limited and the security issue will be guaranteed. Benchmark schemes have been of great help in analyzing the proposed scheme to come out with the targeted conclusion ensuring its efficiency in comparison with other benchmark schemes and its ability to limit energy consumption and to present quite an effective tool in network environment that is able to secure management and key agreements.