@article{qun_ijsn06,
	author = {Haodong Wang and Bo Sheng and Qun Li},
	title = {Elliptic Curve Cryptography Based Access Control in Sensor Networks},
	journal = {International Journal of Security and Networks},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Dec.},
	volume = {1},
	number = {3/4},
	pages = {127--137},
	publisher = {InterScience},
	earlier = {},
	later = {},
	url = {}
	}

Abstract


Access control in sensor networks is to authorize and grant users the
right to access the network and data collected by sensors. Different
user has different access right due to the access restriction
implicated by the data security and confidentiality. Even though
symmetric-key scheme, which has been investigated extensively for
sensor networks, can fulfill the requirement, public-key cryptography
is more flexible and simple rendering a clean interface for the
security component. Against the popular belief that public key scheme
is not practical for sensor networks, this paper describes a
public-key implementation of access control in a sensor network. We
detail the implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) over
primary field, a public-key cryptography scheme, on TelosB, which is 
the latest sensor network platform. We evaluate the performance of our 
implementation and compare with other implementations we have ported to 
TelosB.