TY  - EJOU
AU  - Xie, Yong  
AU  - Xu, Fang  
AU  - Li, Xiang  
AU  - Zhang, Songsong  
AU  - Zhang, Xiaodan  
AU  - Israr, Muhammad 

TI  - EIAS: An Efficient Identity-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme for WSNs Against Coalition Attack
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2019
VL  - 59
IS  - 3
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the major contributors to big data acquisition. The authenticity and integrity of the data are two most important basic requirements for various services based on big data. Data aggregation is a promising method to decrease operation cost for resource-constrained WSNs. However, the process of data acquisitions in WSNs are in open environments, data aggregation is vulnerable to more special security attacks with hiding feature and subjective fraudulence, such as coalition attack. Aimed to provide data authenticity and integrity protection for WSNs, an efficient and secure identity-based aggregate signature scheme (EIAS) is proposed in this paper. Rigorous security proof shows that our proposed scheme can be secure against all kinds of attacks. The performance comparisons shows EIAS has clear advantages in term of computation cost and communication cost when compared with similar data aggregation scheme for WSNs.
KW  - Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
KW  -  big data
KW  -  signature aggregation
KW  -  efficiency
KW  -  coalition attack

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2019.05309