Confidentiality protecting hierarchical concealed data aggregation for wireless sensor network using privacy homomorphism

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network is a set of sensor nodes that are integrated with a physical environment. This tiny sensor node capable of sensing physical phenomena and it can process the sense data. Sensor nodes radio range is short so they transfer data in a multihop manner to form network which will send network activities to base station. Data transmission consumes much more energy than computation. So to overcome this problem data aggregation technique can be useful. This approach reduces energy consumption by avoiding repeated data. Security in wireless sensor network is also one of the important issues. Some properties of a WSN make it more harmed by certain types of attackers, compared to traditional wired network. Furthermore, constrained devices create their own problems for wireless sensor network. As sensor node is powered by batteries and node required lot of energy to perform some complex computation. So it is important to prevent every node in computation process which will save energy to gain longer network life. The focus of this work is provides confidentiality protecting hierarchical concealed data aggregation for WSN using privacy homomorphism. End to End Homomorphic Paillier cryptoscheme is used to achieve proposed approach.