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 Volume 7, Issue 6 (June 2020), Pages: 22-32

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Novel secret sharing scheme based on key transfer protocols in a wireless sensor network environment

 Author(s): Muhammad Sulaiman Khan 1, *, Farhan Ali 1, 2, Wang Wei 1, Na Xia 1, Nadeem Khan 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
 2School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0429-8812

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.06.004

 Abstract:

Wireless sensor network (WSN) application is an emerging industry in the field of computer technology. WSN application plays a commercial role in different domains, such as military surveillance targeting, area monitoring, health care monitoring, environmental sensing, and data center monitoring. However, these applications face various problems, such as the lack of security protocols within devices as well as data transmission and communication issues in between sensors. That’s why, in the current age, security is the focus of many works, and constructing powerful security protocols is very challenging. Researchers currently focus on user’s confidentiality in WSNs environments to analyze problems using various approaches, claiming data security is the most salient concern for unauthorized entities. So, A WSN is a superior type of communication network because it shares data in special manners during the deployment of sensor nodes. Certain characteristics are unique to it. Secret sharing scheme is one of the most innovative and powerful schemes in the modern era of the cryptographic world, which consists of two basic parts, namely, distribution and reconstruction Unceremoniously, Secret Sharing Scheme is working on a unique player called dealer which contains the smallest size of every participant shared secret information. It is a very significant aspect when they distribute the secret, and it would be a small size of the share as needed for the energy-constrained WSNs under the comprehensive security application. Therefore, we presented a theoretically secure, novel secret sharing scheme (SSS) for WSN applications, especially for key transfer protocol. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Secret sharing scheme (SSS), Cryptographic protocols, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Sensor systems, Linear algebra, Computer networks

 Article History: Received 19 October 2019, Received in revised form 4 March 2020, Accepted 7 March 2020

 Acknowledgment:

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Khan MS, Ali F, and Wei W et al. (2020). Novel secret sharing scheme based on key transfer protocols in a wireless sensor network environment. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(6): 22-32

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