Kerberos Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper proposes a Kerberos-based authentication architecture for wireless sensor networks, enabling centralized verification of base stations to enhance security.

Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture integrating Kerberos authentication into wireless sensor networks for secure base station verification.

Findings

Kerberos provides centralized authentication for sensor networks.

The architecture improves security of base station authentication.

The scheme is suitable for resource-constrained sensor environments.

Abstract

We proposed an authentication mechanism in the wireless sensor network. Sensor network uses the Kerberos authentication scheme for the authentication of bases station in the network. Kerberos provides a centralized authentication server whose function is to authenticate user by providing him the ticket to grant request to the base station. In this paper we have provided architecture for the authentication of base station in the wireless sensor network based on the Kerberos server authentication scheme.