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A Novel Approach to Trust Management in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks
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ISSN: 1536-1233
Yi Ren, University of Agder, Grimstad
Vladimir I. Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Vladimir A. Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Grimstad
Frank Y. Li, University of Agder, Grimstad
Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are characterized by long periods of disconnected operation and fixed or irregular intervals between sink visits. The absence of an online trusted third party implies that existing WSN trust management schemes are not applicable to UWSNs. In this paper, we propose a trust management scheme for UWSNs to provide efficient and robust trust data storage and trust generation. For trust data storage, we employ a geographic hash table to identify storage nodes and to significantly decrease storage cost. We use subjective logic based consensus techniques to mitigate trust fluctuations caused by environmental factors. We exploit a set of trust similarity functions to detect trust outliers and to sustain trust pollution attacks. We demonstrate, through extensive analysis and simulations, that the proposed scheme is efficient, robust and scalable.
Index Terms:
trust management,wireless sensor networks,security
Citation:
Yi Ren, Vladimir I. Zadorozhny, Vladimir A. Oleshchuk, Frank Y. Li, "A Novel Approach to Trust Management in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 15 Feb. 2013. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2013.22>
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