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Design and Analysis of a Secure and

Efficient Data Transfer in a Cluster Based
Wireless Sensor Networks
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CHIGURUPATI GOVARDHAN , DR.M.SAMPATH KUMAR
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M.Tech , Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Systems Engineering,
College of Engineering, Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam-530003, AP, India.

Abstract algorithms are used to identify the malicious

node or sensor which reside within the cluster
during data transmission. In this paper as an
Now a days security plays a vital role
extension we have implemented three types of
in each and every part of human life. As
attacks like active, passive and compromised
security plays an important role in todays
human life, but there is no security during data
transmission in a wireless sensor networks. In a
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attacks within the wireless media. These three
attacks increase system performance in terms
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of potency, integrity. During this proposed
WSN there was a scarcity of security between
NCWSN. By conducting numerous
the sender node and destination node
experiments on the projected two algorithmic
throughout communication in wireless media.
program on a LAN network our simulation
As wireless sensor networks don't have fixed
results clearly tells that this projected idea can
topology like a wired networks ,it is very
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deliver the goods high level of knowledge &

critical to spot the malicious node that cause
security whereas transferring data through
the failure or attack during the data
wireless media.
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transmission, as they will not reside in that

region. So in this paper we have implemented a
novel cluster based wireless sensing element
network known as NCWSN for secure and
efficient data transfer in a wireless medium. In
this paper for the first time we have
implemented a new concept like clustering
where the sensors or intermediate nodes are
bounded freely with in a cluster so that nodes
which move freely can reside within the cluster
but they cant move outside the cluster. In this
paper we've enforced 2 algorithms like SET-
IBS (Secure Economical knowledge
Transmission with Identity-Based digital
Signature scheme) and conjointly SET-IBOOS
(Identity-Based Online/Offline digital
Signature (IBOOS) scheme). These two
Keywords
Wireless Sensor Networks, Economical
Knowledge, Data Transmission, Clustering,
Identity Based Online Signature, Attacks,
CompromisedAttack.
Introduction
A WSN is a set of autonomous
devices which are all together connected in a
wireless medium to monitor the physical and
environmental changes that takes place like
temperature , wind pressure, humidity in air
and various physical and climatic changes.

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Coming to the architecture of an WSN, this is
always built on the top of nodes" from a
few hundred to several thousand or even
lakhs, in which each and every node is
connected to one or multiple sensors. In an
WSN,if we take a sensor node we can find
out following components that are attached to
it like a radio transceiver with an internal
antenna or connection to an external antenna,
a microcontroller chip, an electronic circuit
for interfacing with the sensors and an energy
source, this comes as a battery or an
embedded form of energy harvesting.
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Figure. 1. Defines the Working Nature of an
Wireless Sensor Network
Generally a sensor node may vary in
size as different sensors will have different
sizes depend on their individual capabilities.
The size of a sensor varies from a shoe box to
that of size of a dust grain particle. Along
with the size of a sensor the cost of the sensor
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also varies from one to other, ranging from a
few hundreds of dollars to thousand dollars,
depending on the complexity and dimension
of the sensor nodes. The size and cost
constraints of any sensor nodes mainly vary
based on energy, bandwidth, memory and
computation speed of each and every sensor.
Generally the topology plays a vital role for
any network and coming to WSN it doesnt
have any fixed topology as due to its wireless
medium [1], [2].
From the above figure.1, we can
clearly find out that a wireless sensor networks
comprises of a set of sensor nodes all together
surrounded by a mobile relay.The sink node is
a device or node which will try to receive the
data which is available in the network through
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the sensor field.The data which is requested by
the sink node is uploaded by the base station or
application manager at the we can able to get a
clear idea about the wireless sensor networks,
where the application manager will connect to
the wireless network in order to process his
application with the help of a gateway. Here
the gateway is connected to a sink node where
it is used to relay the information to various
sensor nodes which are available in the sensor
field. Here in the sensor field we can able to
identify a lot of sensor nodes which are
surrounded in a boundary region.
Related Work
In this section we mainly discuss
about the background work that was related to
wireless sensor networks and also about the
LEACH protocol that was used in the existing
paper.
Background Work
Generally a wireless sensor networks
are capable of sensing useful information from
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remote locations to an autonomous devices
which are all together connected in a wireless
medium to monitor the physical and
environmental changes that takes place like
temperature, wind pressure, humidity in air and
various physical and climatic changes. As they
are very important for sensing the information
to-and fro autonomous devices, yet still they
face a common problem like identifying the
attacker or failure node accurately during
transmission of data. This is a major problem
as the wireless sensor networks have no fixed
topology and they are almost topology less
networks. Hence if there is any attack occurred
it is very difficult to find the exact location
where the attack took place, as the nodes
always moves from one location to other.
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Figure. 1. Represents the architecture
flow of LEACH Protocol
Hence the researchers try to design a
new wireless sensor network which is cluster -
based network, so as to realize the network
measurability and management that maximizes
node period and cut back bandwidth
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consumption by exploitation native
collaboration among sensor nodes [3]. In this
new cluster based wireless sensor network
(CWSN), each and every node encompasses a
leader device node, thought to be cluster-head
(CH).Initially the cluster head node try to
aggregate all the nodes information which was
collected from their leaf nodes (I.e we treat leaf
nodes as Non CH device nodes) in its cluster
and try to send that nodes information to the
Base station which is connected to that CH
device node which is shown in figure 2.
In general the LEACH (Low-Energy
accommodative Clustering Hierarchy) protocol
bestowed by Heinzelman et al. [4] may be a
wide familiar and effective one to cut back and
balance the whole energy consumption for
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CWSNs. This LEACH protocol initially to
prevent the fast energy consumption of the set
of Cluster Heads, it will indiscriminately
rotates the cluster heads among all device
nodes in the network, in rounds. Following the
thought of LEACH, a number of protocols are
bestowed like APTEEN [5] and PEACH [7]
that use similar ideas of LEACH. In this paper,
for convenience, we tend to decision this kind
of cluster-based protocols as LEACH-like
protocols. Researchers are widely learning
CWSNs[6] within the last decade within the
literature; however, the implementation of the
cluster-based design in the universe is very
complicated .
Main Contributions
In this section we mainly discuss
about the main contributions that was studied
and analyzed in this proposed paper. Now let is
look about that in detail.
After conducting a thorough analysis on
our proposed model, we have a tendency to
propose a two level of protocols with a Secure
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and economical information Transmission
(SET) facilities for CWSNs, referred to as
SET-IBS and SETIBOOS, by victimization the
IBS theme and therefore the IBOOS scheme is
mainly deal with either online or offline mode
of data transmission in a cluster based wireless
sensor networks. The key plan of each SET-
IBS and SET-IBOOS is to evidence the
encrypted detected data, by applying digital
signatures to message packets, which are
economical in communication and applying the
key management for security[9]. Within the
projected protocols, secret keys and pairing
parameters are distributed and preloaded
altogether sensing element nodes by the SB at
the start, which overcomes the key written
agreement drawback represented in ID-based
crypto-systems.
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Transmission ( SET )Protocol
In this section, we will mainly discuss
about the proposed Novel Secure Efficient
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Transmission protocol for efficient data
transfer in wireless sensor networks based on
Identity Based Signature in Online/Offline.
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IBS Technique
In this section we mainly discuss
about the identity based digital signature (IBS)
technique which was applied for cluster based
wireless sensor networks in order to identify
the impact of attackers. In the traditional WSN
there was no integration of this IBS technique,
so there were many limitations and failures that
take place in usage of traditional wsn networks.
A two well known authors like Boneh
and Franklin for the first time have introduced
the novel functional and efficient ID-based
encryption scheme based on bilinear pairings
on elliptic curves [9]. In order to implement
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this new technique, initially they choose
randomly two large primes p and q, and let
E/Fp indicate an elliptic curve
y2 = x3 + ax + b (4a3 + 27b2 0)
over a finite field Fp. We denote by G1 a q-
order subgroup of the additive group of points
in E/Fp, and G2 a q-order subgroup of the
multiplicative group in the finite field Fp*. The
pairing is a mapping e : G1G1 G2, which is
a bilinear map with the following properties.
Bilinear: P, Q, R, S G1, e (P + Q,
R + S) = e (P, R) e (P, S ) e (Q, R) e
(Q, S). In the same way, c, d Zq,
e (cP, dQ) =e (P, dQ) c =e (cP, Q) d
D =e (P, Q) cd, etc.
Non-degeneracy: If P is a generator
of G1, then e (P, P) is a generator of
G2.
Computability: There is an efficient
algorithm to compute e (P, Q) in G2,
P, Q G1.
Proposed Enhanced Identity
Based Digital Signature for CWSN
An IBS theme enforced for CWSNs
consists of the following operations,
specifically, setup at the BS, key extraction and
signature linguistic communication of the info
causation nodes, and verification of the info
receiving nodes,which is clearly shown in
figure 3.
Setup Phase: The Batch Signature (BS)
initially generates a passkey msk and public
parameters param for the non-public key
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generator (PKG), and offers them to all or
any device nodes.
Extraction: Given associate degree ID string,
a device node generates a private key sekID
related to the ID exploitation msk.
Signature signing: Given a message M,
time-stamp t and a linguistic communication
key , the causation node generates a signature
SIG.
Verification: Given the ID, M and SIG, the
receiving node outputs accept if SIG is valid,
and outputs reject otherwise.
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Figure. 3. Shows the process of generating
a Identity based Digital Signature
Extended IBOOS Scheme
for CWSNs
An Enhanced IBOOS theme enforced
for CWSNs consists of following four
operations, specifically, setup at the
baccalaureate, key extraction and offline sign
language at the CHs, on-line sign language of
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the data causing nodes, and verification of the
receiving nodes.
Setup: Same as that within the IBS theme.
Extraction: Same as that within the IBS
theme.
Offline Signing: Given public parameters and
time-stamp t, the CH detector node generates
associate degree offline signature SIGoffline,
and transmit it to the leaf nodes in its cluster.
On-line signing: From the non-public key
sekID, SIGoffline and message M, a causing
node (leaf node) generates a web signature
SIGonline.
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Verification: Given ID, M and SIG online,
the receiving node (CH node) outputs accept
if SIGonline is valid, and outputs reject
otherwise.
Implementation Phase
Implementation is the stage where
theoretical design is converted into a practical
form by dividing application into following
modules. The below are the 6 modules which
are developed in this application for
implementing the IBOOS on cluster based
wireless sensor networks.
SET Protocol
In this module, Secure and Efficient
data Transmission (SET) protocol for CWSNs.
The SET-IBOOS protocol is designed with the
same purpose and scenarios for CWSNs with
higher efficiency. The proposed SET-IBOOS
operates similarly to the previous SETIBS,
which has a protocol initialization prior to the
network deployment and operates in rounds
during communication. We first introduce the
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protocol initialization, and then describe the
key management of the protocol by using the
IBOOS scheme, and the protocol operations
afterwards.
Key Management for Security
In this module, security is based on
the DLP in the multiplicative group. The
corresponding private pairing parameters are
preloaded in the sensor nodes during the
protocol initialization. The IBOOS scheme in
the proposed SET-IBOOS consists of
following four operations, extraction, oine
signing, online signing and verifications.
Key Management Module
In this Module, the key cryptographies
used in the protocol to achieve secure data
transmission, which consist of symmetric and
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asymmetric key based security.
Neighborhood Authentication &
Storage Cost Module
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In this module, used for secure access
and data transmission to nearby sensor nodes,
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by authenticating with each other. Here,
limited means the probability of
neighborhood authentication, where only the
nodes with the shared Pair wise key can
authenticate each other. Here the storage cost is
denoted as the number of security keys that are
stored on sensors node memory.
Network Scalability&
Communication Overhead Module
In this module, indicates whether a
security protocol is able to scale without
compromising the security requirements. Here,
comparative low means that, compared with
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SET-IBS and SET-IBOOS, in the secure data
transmission with a symmetric key
management, the larger network scale
increases, the more orphan nodes appear in the
network.And there was no communication
overhead problem for the data packets which
are stored during communication.
Computational Overhead &
Attack Resilience Module
In this module, the energy cost and
computation efficiency on the generation and
verifications of the certificates or signatures for
security. The attack resilience is nothing but
the facility where the security protocol can
protect against any type of attacks.
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Conclusion
In this paper, we have finally
concluded with a two set of new algorithms
based on identity based digital signature either
in online or offline mode. These two
algorithms are efficient in identifying the
failure nodes which are available in wireless
medium and provides and efficient data
transmission. Finally , the comparison between
the calculation and simulation results show
that, the planned SET-IBS and SET-IBOOS
protocols have higher performance than
existing secure protocols for CWSNs As an
extension for this paper we have implemented
this proposed algorithm with 3 attacks like
active, passive and compromised attacks in the
wireless media. By conducting various
experiments on the proposed two algorithms on
a LAN network our simulation results clearly
tells that this proposed concept will achieve
high level of data security while transferring
data through wireless media.
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