SLEACH： Secure Low.Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) protocol is a basic clustering-based routing protocol of sensor networks. In this paper, we present the design of SLEACH, a secure extension for the LEACH protocol. We divide SLEACH into four phases and fit inexpensive cryptographic operations to each part of the protocol functionality to create an efficient, practical protocol. Then we give security analyses of SLEACH. Our security analyses show that our scheme is robust against any external attacker or compromised nodes in the sensor network