In this paper we propose the self-healing feature for group key distribution through Subset Difference (SD) method proposed by D. Naor et al. The subset difference method is one of the efficient proposals for group key distribution, however, recently a polynomial based solution for key distribution was proposed by D. Liu et al., which has the similar message size but also provides self-healing ...

A self-healing key distribution scheme enables a group of users to establish a group key over an unreliable channel. In such a protocol, a group manager, to distribute a session key to each member of the group, broadcasts packets along the channel. If some packet gets lost, then users are still capable of recovering the group key using the received packets, without requesting additional transmi...

The term wireless sensor network is applied broadly to a range of significantly different networking environments. On the other hand there exists a substantial body of research on key establishment in wireless sensor networks, much of which does not pay heed to the variety of different application requirements. We set out a simple framework for classifying wireless sensor networks in terms of t...

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For a single transmit and receive antenna system, a new constellation design is proposed to combat errors in the phase estimate of the channel coefficient. The proposed constellation is a combination of PSK and PAM constellations, where PSK is used to provide protection against phase errors, while PAM is used to increase the transmission rate using the knowledge of the magnitude of the channel ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are often deployed in potentially adverse or even hostile environment so that there are concerns on security issues in these WSNs. Sensor nodes with resource-constrained make security applications a challenging problem. Key agreement is a fundamental security service in WSNs, which enables sensor nodes to communicate securely with each other using cryptographic t...