A self-certified cross-cluster asymmetric group key agreement for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks have some obvious characteristics, such as communication range is limited, computing power is limited and energy is limited. Group key agreement in this environment requires a cross-cluster, computation and communication overhead are lightweight and highly safe group key agreement protocol. Aiming at these demands, the paper proposes a Self-certified cross-cluster Asymmetric group key agreement (SC-AGKA). To establish a lightweight and efficient group communication channel among sensor nodes. According to the cluster head as the bridge node to realize the sensor nodes in different cluster have the same group key information, and negotiate a pair of asymmetric group keys to realize the cross cluster secure communication. The group communication adopts asymmetric encryption mechanism. It realizes the group security communication mechanism of message sender unconstraint. The asymmetric group key agreement has the key self-certified, which does not need additional rounds to verify the correctness of group key. Proven and analysis show that the proposed protocol has the advantages of in security and energy consumption.