Additively homomorphic encryption and fragmentation scheme for data aggregation inside unattended wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Data fragmentation and dispersion is recognized as a way of providing confidentiality and availability of data stored inside unattended wireless sensor networks. This paper introduces an additively homomorphic encryption and fragmentation scheme (AHEF). AHEF replaces additively homomorphic secret sharing used in state-of-the-art techniques with additively homomorphic fragmentation. This change has a significant impact on the volume of data stored inside the sensors which in turn supports lower transmission costs. Both, storage and transmission costs are reduced by a factor of at least 2. Moreover, by reducing the number of required computations, AHEF allows sensors to save energy. © 2019, Institut Mines-Télécom and Springer Nature Switzerland AG.