Homomorphic Hashing Verification for Wireless Sensor Networks Rateless Codes Over-the-Air Programming

The homomorphic hash algorithm (HHA) is introduced to help on-the-fly verify the vireless sensor network (WSN) over-the-air programming (OAP) data based on rateless codes. The receiver calculates the hash value of a group of data by homomorphic hash function, and then it compares the hash value with the receiving message digest. Because the feedback channel is deliberately removed during the distribution process, the rateless codes are often vulnerable when they face security issues such as packets contamination or attack. This method prevents contaminating or attack on rateless codes and reduces the potential risks of decoding failure. Compared with the SHA1 and MD5, HHA, which has a much shorter message digest, will deliver more data. The simulation results show that to transmit and verify the same amount of OAP data, HHA method sends 17.9% to 23.1% fewer packets than MD5 and SHA1 under different packet loss rates. © 2019 Editorial Department of Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology .