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This paper proposes a Secure-Enhanced  Data Aggregation based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (SEDA-ECC). The design of SEDA-ECC is based on the principles of privacy homomorphic encryption (PH) and divide-and-conquer. An aggregation tree disjoint method is first adopted to divide the tree into three subtrees of similar sizes, and a PH-based aggregation is performed in each subtree to generate an aggregated subtree result. Then the forged result can be identified  by the base station (BS) by comparing the aggregated count value. Finally, the aggregated result can be calculated by the BS according to the remaining results that have not been forged. Extensive analysis and simulations show that SEDA-ECC can achieve the highest security level on the aggregated result with appropriate energy consumption compared with other asymmetric schemes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140406701","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,4,11]],"date-time":"2014-04-11T06:03:36Z","timestamp":1397196216000},"page":"6701-6721","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["A Secure-Enhanced Data Aggregation Based on ECC in Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Qiang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Technology, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications,  Nanjing 210046, China"},{"name":"School of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing 210046, China"},{"name":"School of Computer & Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Geng","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing 210046, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liwen","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Advanced Technology, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications,  Nanjing 210046, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,4,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Madden, S., Franklin, M.J., Hellerstein, J., and Hong, W. 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