The invention provides a cross-cluster asymmetric
group key negotiation method in a
wireless sensor network. The method comprises steps as follows: an allied and shared key between clusters is established, cluster heads are taken as bridging nodes, and sensor nodes of different nodes have the same
group key factor information; an asymmetric computation
algorithm is designed in the
group key negotiation process, more computation and communication traffic of the sensor nodes are migrated to the cluster head nodes with larger energy, and the lightweight property of computation and communication overhead of the sensor nodes is ensured; self-certification property of keys is realized, additional communication rounds are not required, the sensor nodes can self-certify the
correctness in computing the group keys, and the
correctness and the safety of the group key negotiation are guaranteed.
Group key negotiation of the sensor nodes distributed in different clusters in the
wireless sensor network is realized, a safe
communication channel is established, the scale of cooperative computation and
information sharing of
sensor node groups is further expanded,
energy consumption of the sensor nodes is reduced, and the service life of the sensor nodes is prolonged.