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An efficient key distribution Scheme for WSN with Mutual Healing Capability

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The need for secure communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is increasing as more and more complex sensors are being developed and deployed for a variety of purposes. Secure communication in WSN can be made possible by using secret group key. However, securely distributing group key among sensor nodes is a difficult task and requires very complex mathematical calculations. The schemes presented so far are either vulnerable to various security attacks or have high computational and storage complexity. This paper presents a new Group Key Distribution scheme with Mutual Healing (GKDMH) which is based on Chinese Remainder theorem. The proposed scheme has better performance than existing schemes in terms of computational and storage complexity, and provides mutual healing in case of missed transmissions.

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Patel, N., Kumar, V. An efficient key distribution Scheme for WSN with Mutual Healing Capability. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 36735–36749 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13501-y

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