Self-propagating mal-packets have become an emergent threat against information
confidentiality, integrity, and service availability in wireless sensor networks. While playing …

Traditional key management techniques, such as public key cryptography or key distribution
center (eg, Kerberos), are often not effective for wireless sensor networks for the serious …

Heterogeneous networks, which can be either integrated wired and wireless networks or
fully wireless networks, are convenient as they allow user nodes to be connected whenever …

A heterogeneous distributed sensor network (HDSN) is a type of distributed sensor network
where sensors with different deployment groups and different functional types participate at …

With the advancement of wireless networks in recent years, group communication via
wireless networks is becoming an increasingly popular research area due to the growth of …

While symmetric-key schemes are efficient in processing time for sensor networks, they
generally require complicated key management, which may introduce large memory and …