Index-based selective audio encryption for wireless multimedia sensor networks

Honggang Wang, Michael Hempel, Dongming Peng, Wei Wang, Hamid Sharif, Hsiao Hwa Chen

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Abstract

Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) support many acoustic applications for audio surveillance, animal tracking/vocalization, human health monitoring, etc. However, resource constraints in sensor networks (such as limited battery power, bandwidth/computation capability, etc.) pose challenges for the quality and security of audio data transmission and processing. The security is a critical issue since audio information can be accessed or even manipulated in WMSNs. In order to ensure security, audio quality and energy efficiency, we propose an index-based selective audio encryption scheme for WMSNs. The scheme protects data transmissions by incorporating both resource allocation and selective encryption based on modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT). In this proposed scheme, the audio data importance is leveraged using the MDCT audio index, and wireless audio data transmission proceeds with energy efficient selective encryption. The simulation results show that the proposed approach offers a significant gain in terms of energy efficiency, encryption performance and audio transmission quality.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5398918
Pages (from-to)215-223
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume12
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2010

Keywords

  • Audio streaming
  • Modified discrete cosine transform
  • Security
  • Wireless sensor network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Media Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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