2020 IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory
21-26 June 2020 • Los Angeles, California, USA
| Paper ID | G.1.5 | ||
| Paper Title | k-Connectivity in Random Graphs induced by Pairwise Key Predistribution Schemes | ||
| Authors | Mansi Sood, Osman Yagan, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, United States | ||
| Session | G.1: Graph Analytics | ||
| Presentation | Lecture | ||
| Track | Graphs, Games, Sparsity, and Signal Processing | ||
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| Abstract | Random key predistribution schemes serve as a viable solution for facilitating secure communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We analyze \emph{reliable} connectivity of a {\em heterogeneous} WSN under the random pairwise key predistribution scheme of Chan et al. According to this scheme, each of the $n$ sensor nodes is classified as type-1 (respectively, type-2) with probability $\mu$ (respectively, $1-\mu)$ where $0<\mu<1$. Each type-1 (respectively, type-2) node is {\em paired} with 1 (respectively, $K_n$) other node selected uniformly at random; each {\em pair} is then assigned a unique pairwise key so that they can securely communicate with each other. A main question in the design of secure and heterogeneous WSNs is how should the parameters $n$, $\mu$, and $K_n$ be selected such that resulting network exhibits certain desirable properties with high probability. Of particular interest is the {\em strength} of connectivity often studied in terms of $k$-connectivity; i.e., with $k=1, 2, \ldots$, the property that the network remains connected despite the removal of any $k-1$ nodes or links.In this paper, we answer this question by analyzing the {\em inhomogeneous random K-out graph} model naturally induced under the heterogeneous pairwise scheme. It was recently established that this graph is 1-connected asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) if and only if $K_n=\omega(1)$. Here, we show that for $k=2, 3, \ldots$, we need to set $K_n = \frac{1}{1-\mu}(\log n +(k-2)\log\log n + \omega(1))$ for the network to be $k$-connected a.a.s. The result is given in the form of a zero-one law indicating that the network is a.a.s. {\em not} $k$-connected when $K_n = \frac{1}{1-\mu}(\log n +(k-2)\log\log n - \omega(1))$. We present simulation results to demonstrate the usefulness of the results in the finite node regime. | ||
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