Seminario Interdipartimentale di Algoritmica  

Monday, April 18, 2005, 12:00 noon
Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
Alessandro Mei
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

DI - Department of Computer Science
Seminar Room, third floor

Abstract:

Recent advances in electronics and wireless communication has made it viable to build networks composed of a large number of sensors, cheap low-end devices that are small in size, are battery powered, and communicate in short distances. Wireless sensor network applications include monitoring of wildlife, pollution, bulding safety and security, as well as supporting communications in disaster areas. They are also expected to play an important role in the upcoming age of pervasive computing. Due to the constraints in computation, memory, and power resources of sensors, and the unique threats these networks must cope with, protecting it all is both critical and a challenge. We will present some of the security problems of sensor networks and show a few protocols that solve part of these problems.

This is joint work with Roberto Di Pietro, Luigi V. Mancini, Alessandro Panconesi, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, and Mauro Sozio.