An Approach to Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) using Asymmetric Homomorphic Encryption (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) Scheme

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a collection of autonomous collection of motes. Sensor motes are usually Low computational and low powered. In WSN Sensor motes are used to collect environmental data collection and pass that data to the base station. Data aggregation is a common technique widely used in wireless sensor networks. [2] Data aggregation is the process of collecting the data from multiple sensor nodes by avoiding the redundant data transmission and that collected data has been sent to the base station (BS) in single route. Secured data aggregation deals with Securing aggregated data collected from various sources. Many secured data aggregation algorithms has been proposed by many researchers. Symmetric key based cryptography schemes are not suitable when wireless sensor network grows. Here we are proposing an approach to secured data aggregation in wireless sensor networks using Asymmetric key based Elliptic Curve cryptography technique. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) [1] is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. Elliptic Curve Cryptography requires smaller keys compared to non-Elliptic curve cryptography (based on plain Galois fields) to provide equivalent security. The proposed technique of secure data aggregation is used to improve the sensor network lifetime and to reduce the energy consumption during aggregation process.