A key distribution scheme for mobile underwater wireless sensor networks

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Wireless Sensor Networks consist of small battery-limited devices called sensor nodes. They are used for collecting data from surrounding environment and relay them via wireless communication. One of the recent application areas is underwater sensing. Communication in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) is different from airborne communication. Radio frequencies cannot be used for UWSN. Instead acoustic waves, which cause extra challenges, are used in UWSN. When UWSNs are deployed in hostile environment, nodes can be captured by an adversary. In order to secure UWSNs, firstly key distribution problem must be addressed. Moreover, UWSNs are inherently mobile since the nodes may be drifted in the sea. In this thesis, we propose a key distribution model which is applied for two group mobility models, namely (i) nomadic mobility model and (ii) meandering current mobility model. Our nomadic mobility based key distribution scheme works in three dimensions. However, this scheme is suita

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