Confidential Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Coding Theory

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are recently receiving substantial attention due to their unlimited potency. The data aggregation scheme provides better security as cluster head perform aggregation on cipher text directly without decryption, accordingly transmission overhead is reduced. We propose the aggregation scheme based on coding theory. McEliece public key encryption based on coding is providing the best alternate for cryptosystem. They leverage error correcting codes as a mechanism for encryption. Different from RSA and ELGAMAL, quantum computer cannot break the McEliece public key cryptosystem and here encryption and decryption operations are more efficient and even secure against chosen cipher text attacks.