• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.86-95
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• 2011

Sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to security than wired network due to using limited hardware performance and wireless communications that network topology changes frequently. Among techniques to enhance the security, the node authentication mechanism is used to defend against data forgery attacks using the ID of the node or to interfere with the routing of the network routing. In this paper, we proposed the AM-E mechanism that makes authentication key by using the energy value of node requesting authentication and performs the communication procedures for data transfer between different nodes. Because the energy value of node is changed depending on time, every time the authentication request is, an authentication key is changed. These features enhance the security of sensor networks and will help to configure the more secure WSN.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.22-33
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• 2009

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are self-organized networks that do not rely in their operation on wired infrastructure. As in any networking technology, security is an essential element in MANET as well, for proliferation of this type of networks. But supporting secure communication in MANETs proved to be a significant challenge, mainly due to the fact that the set of nodes in the network can change frequently and rapidly and due to the lack of access to the wired infrastructure. In particular, the trust model and the authentication protocols, which were developed for wired and infrastructure-based networks, cannot be used in MANETs. In [1], we addressed the problem of efficient authentication of distributed mobile users in geographically large networks and proposed a new authentication scheme for this case of MANETs. The proposed scheme exploits randomized groups to efficiently share authentication information among nodes that together implement the function of a distributive Certification Authority(CA). In this paper, we analyze numerically the performance of authentication method using randomized groups and compare with the simulation result.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.2109-2112
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• 2003

Diameter-MIPV4 프로토콜은 기존 Mobile IP(MIP)의 취약한 키 분배 문제를 해결하고 이동노드에 대해 인증 및 권한 검증, 과금 서비스 등을 지원함으로써 보다 개선된 보안 메커니즘을 제안하고 있다. 그러나 흠 망의 Diameter 서버에 의해 인증 및 등록이 수행된 후 공중망을 통해서 이동노드에게 세션키를 분배하는 것은 많은 보안상 공격에 노출될 수 있으며 원격지 도메인간의 빈번한 등록 메시지 교환은 통신 지연을 야기 시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 안전한 세션키 분배를 위해서, 이동 노드의 등록 수행 과정 중 홈 망과 방문 망 사이에 IPsec(IP security) 터널을 구축함으로써 공중망에서의 세션키 유출 위협을 감소시켰다. 또한 네트워크의 계층성과 Micro-Mobility MIP 메커니즘을 이용하여 동일 도메인 내에서의 핸드오프 시 이동 노드의 인증 및 등록, 세션키 분배를 지역화 함으로써 통신 지연 문제를 효율적으로 개선하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.321-335
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• 2001

The explosive growth in wireless networking increasingly urges the demand to support mobility within the Internet which is what Mobile-IP aims to provide. Because the transmission of signals through open-air s easy to be attacked, it is important to provide secure transmission for mobile users and make them responsible for what they have done in networks. Although IETF provides a secret-key based security mechanism, those mechanisms suffer from scalability, efficiency and non-repudiation service problem. The proposed mechanism uses public-key based authentication optimizing the performance. It includes non-repudiation service on the side of mobile for airtight security in wireless network. The simulation results show that the proposed authentication reduces the total registration time. It especially minimizes the computation cost on the side of the mobile node and solves the power problem. In practice, the proposed authentication is feasible with reasonable performance and security service in macro mobility that Mobile-IP is intended to solve.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.445-447
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• 2004

네트워크 단위로 이동성을 제공하는 네트워크 이동성(NEtwork Mobility, NEMO)프로토콜에서 방문 네트워크(Visited Network)는 이동네트워크의 홈 네트워크(Home Network)를 통해 이동 네트워크(Mobile Network)를 인증한다. 안전한 인증이 이루어지기 위해서 홈 네트워크의 인증 서버와 이동 네트워크간의 사용할 키가 필요하게 된다. 그러나 두 엔터티간 키 협정을 위해 메시지를 주고받는 것은 서비스 에러나 공격에 취약하고 대역폭이나 밧데리 등이 제한적인 무선 환경에서는 적절하지 않다. 많은 키 결정 알고리즘에서 사용되는 공개 키 기반 알고리즘은 이런 무선 환경에 적절하지 않다. 또한 비밀키 선분배 방식은 인증 서버가 자신이 인증해야할 모든 노드와의 키 쌍을 가지고 있어야 한다는 정에서 확장성 문제를 지닌다. 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 회귀분석을 이용하여 쉽게 노드가 가지고 있는 키를 계산하고, 비밀키 인증서를 이용하여 간편하고 빠르게 인증을 수행할 수 있는 새로운 키 선분배 및 인증 메커니즘을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.12a
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• pp.60-65
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 Mobile IPv6 환경에서 보안성이 있는 인증 메커니즘을 제안한다. Internet draft에서 제안하고 있는 RR 방식의 BU 인증 메커니즘은 MN-CN, HA-CN간 두 경로 모두에 공격자가 접근하지 못한다는 전제로 인해 BU 인증을 위한 공유키 생성시 취약성을 내포하여 만약 공격자가 두 경로 모두에 접근 가능할 경우 노드간 통신하는 전 단계에 걸쳐 수동적, 능동적 공격에 노출되게 된다. 제안한 BU 인증 메커니즘은 최초 안전한 BU 인증을 위한 공유키를 생성 후 차후 이어지는 BU 인증은 이러한 안전성을 바탕으로 신속한 인증이 이루어지는 2단계의 인증 메커니즘을 제안함으로써 공유키의 노출을 최소화하여 보다 높은 수준의 보안을 제공하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1500-1502
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• 2009

무선 메쉬 네트워크는 무선 네트워크 환경을 구성하는 방안들 중 비교적 낮은 비용으로 서비스 지역을 효율적으로 늘릴 수 있다. 그러나 무선 네트워크의 특성상 많은 보안상의 문제점이 나타나고 공격형태 또한 다양화 되고 있다. 특히 악의적인 노드에 의한 공격은 네트워크 성능을 저하시키거나 파괴시킬 수 있다. 현재 이러한 취약점을 해결하기 위해 많은 보안 메커니즘들이 나와 있지만 이 또한 완벽히 해결하지 못했다. 기존 공개키 기반 알고리즘은 인증된 노드들의 오류 동작과 인증된 노드가 악의적 해커에 의해 감염된 경우 차단할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 악의적인 노드를 차단하기 위해 기존 공개키 기반 알고리즘의 문제점을 보완한 메쉬 라우터 인증 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.659-667
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• 2005

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network(MANET) is a multi hop wireless network with no prepared base stations or centralized administrations, where flocks of peer systems gather and compose a network. Each node operates as a normal end system in public networks. In addition to it, a MANET node is required to work as a router to forward traffic from a source or intermediate node to others. Each node operates as a normal end system in public networks, and further a MANET node work as a router to forward traffic from a source or intermediate node to the next node via routing path. Applications of MANET are extensively wide, such as battle field or any unwired place; however, these are exposed to critical problems related to network management, node's capability, and security because of frequent and dynamic changes in network topology, absence of centralized controls, restricted usage on network resources, and vulnerability oi mobile nodes which results from the special MANET's character, shared wireless media. These problems induce MANET to be weak from security attacks from eavesdropping to DoS. To guarantee secure authentication is the main part of security service In MANET because networks without secure authentication are exposed to exterior attacks. In this paper, a multistage authentication strategy based on CGSR is proposed to guarantee that only genuine and veritable nodes participate in communications. The proposed authentication model is composed of key manager, cluster head and common nodes. The cluster head is elected from secure nodes, and key manager is elected from cluster heads. The cluster head will verify other common nodes within its cluster range in MANET. Especially, ID of each node is used on communication, which allows digital signature and blocks non repudiation. For performance evaluation, attacks against node authentication are analyzed. Based on security parameters, strategies to resolve these attacks are drawn up.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.27-34
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• 2005

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are self-organized networks that do not rely in their operation on wired infrastructure. As in any networking technology, security is an essential element in MANET as well, for proliferation of this type of networks. But supporting secure communication in MANETs proved to be a significant challenge, mainly due to the fact that the set of nodes in the network can change frequently and rapidly and due to the lack of access to the wired infrastructure. In particular, the trust model and the authentication protocols, which were developed for wired and infrastructure-based networks, cannot be used in MANETs. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient authentication of distributed mobile users in geographically large networks. In particular, we propose a new authentication scheme for this case of MANETs. The proposed scheme exploits Randomized Groups to efficiently share authentication information among nodes that together implement the function of a distributive Certification Authority (CA). We then evaluate the performance of authentication using Randomized Groups.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.40-48
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• 2008

Security of self organized mobile ad hoc networks is an important issue because administration information in the networks is managed by the constituent nodes. Especially authentication mechanism is necessary for trust setup between newly joining nodes and the network. The authentication models and protocols which are based on the wireline infrastructure could not be practical for mobile ad hoc network. Although public key algorithm-based method is widely used for authentication, it is not easy to be applied to mobile ad hoc networks because they do not have infrastructure such as centralized CA which is needed for certificate verification. In this paper, we consider the public key based random CA group method proposed in [1] to provide efficient authentication scheme to mobile ad hoc networks and analyze the performance of the method, which is then compared to the home CA method. From the analysis results, we see that the random CA method where the function of CA is distributed to some mobile nodes and the authentication information is propagated to randomly chosen CAs shows higher reliability and lower cost than home CA method.