Introduction to Security Protocols for Sensor Network

Surender Kumar

Wireless sensor networks will be widely deployed in the near future. While much research has focused on making these networks feasible and useful, security has received little attention. We present a suite of security protocols optimized for sensor networks: SPINS. SPINS has two secure building blocks: SNEP and TESLA. SNEP includes: data con dentiality, two party data authentication, and evidence of data freshness.. We implemented the above protocols, and show that they are practical even on minimal hardware .the performance of the protocol suite easily matches the data rate of our network. Additionally, we demonstrate that the suite can be used for building higher level protocols.