Award Abstract #0347807
CAREER: Secure and Resilient Sensor Network Communication Infrastructure

NSF Org:	CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	March 11, 2004
Latest Amendment Date:	September 18, 2007
Award Number:	0347807
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Karl N. Levitt CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	June 1, 2004
Expires:	May 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$502220
Investigator(s):	Adrian Perrig perrig@cmu.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Carnegie-Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue PITTSBURGH, PA 15213 412/268-8746
NSF Program(s):	ITR-CYBERTRUST, ADVANCED NET INFRA & RSCH
Field Application(s):	0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC,9218,7254,4097,2801,1667,1045
Program Element Code(s):	7456,4090

ABSTRACT

CNS-0347807

CAREER: Secure and Resilient Sensor Network Communication Infrastructure

Adrian Perrig

Sensor networks provide solutions for many challenging problems, such as real-time safety monitoring of buildings or sensing of environmental pollutants. Attacks are often easy to launch in sensor networks---an attacker can easily eavesdrop on or inject wireless messages, or compromise sensors deployed in unsafe areas. Therefore, many sensor network applications require secure and attack resilient communication, especially sensor networks used to secure critical infrastructures.

This research studies the problem of secure and attack-resilient communication in sensor networks. The result of this research is an easy-to-use secure communication infrastructure. This secure communication infrastructure will enable sensor network designers to construct secure and attack-resilient networks, without requiring security experts. The resulting sensor network will provide data secrecy (provide robustness against eavesdropping) and data authenticity (prevent message injection), provide resistance against malicious resource consumption attacks, and provide resistance against physical sensor node capture and compromise. This research will significantly impact sensor network research and sensor network deployments as it will greatly simplify building secure sensor network applications. Securing sensor networks used in critical infrastructures will significantly enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure to failures and malicious attacks.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, Bartosz Przydatek, and Dawn Song.  "SIA: Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks,"  Journal of Computer Security (JCS), Special Issue on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,  v.15,  2007,  p. 69.

Haowen Chan, Virgil Gligor, Adrian Perrig, and Gautam Muralidharan.  "On the Distribution and Revocation of Cryptographic Keys in Sensor Networks,"  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC),  v.2,  2005,  p. 233.


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