1st International ICST Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks

Research Article

A security framework with trust management for sensor networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/SECCMW.2005.1588313,
        author={Zhiying  Yao and Jongsoo  Jang and Kiyoung  Kim and Insun Lee and Daeyoung  Kim},
        title={A security framework with trust management for sensor networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={SECQOS},
        year={2006},
        month={2},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/SECCMW.2005.1588313}
    }
    
  • Zhiying Yao
    Jongsoo Jang
    Kiyoung Kim
    Insun Lee
    Daeyoung Kim
    Year: 2006
    A security framework with trust management for sensor networks
    SECQOS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/SECCMW.2005.1588313
Zhiying Yao1,*, Jongsoo Jang2, Kiyoung Kim2, Insun Lee3, Daeyoung Kim3
  • 1: Information and Communications University (ICU), Korea,
  • 2: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea
  • 3: Information and Communications University (ICU), Korea
*Contact email: yao@icu.ac.kr

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks are prone to security attacks, which are either common to conventional networks or unique for themselves due to the resource-constraint, susceptibility to physical capture, and wireless nature. Security solutions using crypto schemes are not enough, and sometimes not efficient. In this paper, we develop a security framework with trust management, i.e. establishment of trustworthy network environment, to secure sensor networks. For trust management, we explore a distributed trust model, enabling recommendation-based trust and trust-based recommendation, to build reasonable trust relationship among network entities, represented by numerical values, i.e. trust values. And our security framework fully relies on the values to execute security-related actions aiming at the tradeoff between security and network performance.