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Key Pre-distribution Techniques for WSN Security Services

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In recent years, thanks to technology advances in low-power wirelessly networked systems and, we have witnessed the emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and embedded computing technologies in many fields of our life; which range from military to medical applications and from industry to home appliances. Although most of researchers focus on designing protocols that maximizes both the processing capabilities and energy reserves, many of these protocols pay little attention to securing this WSNs. Nowadays, security goal is vital for ensuring the performance and the acceptance of the wireless sensor networks in many recent applications. This goal is still a challenge on account of the constraint resources of these wireless sensor nodes. This chapter givesan overviewof the desired security services required for the WSNs, their threats model and finally the chapter presents in details different pairwise key distribution security techniques for distribution WSNs.

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  1. Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed Mostafa M. Fouad

  2. Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

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  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  4. Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Qena, Egypt

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Fouad, M.M.M., Hassanien, A.E. (2014). Key Pre-distribution Techniques for WSN Security Services. In: Hassanien, A., Kim, TH., Kacprzyk, J., Awad, A. (eds) Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43616-5_11

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