Better Security Enforcement in Trusted Computing Enabled Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is an ad hoc wireless network composed of a large number of small sensor nodes. Sensor nodes are usually severely resource limited and power constrained, and as such security enforcement in WSNs is a challenging task. To facilitate security enforcement, we propose a heterogeneous architecture for WSNs, where a WSN is partitioned into clusters, each having a high-end cluster head. The cluster heads are further equipped with trusted computing technology (TC), such that they act as online trusted parties, thereby expected to help enforce security in a more effective manner. To show this, we discuss various examples on both content security and context security.

Keywords

wireless sensor networks (WSNs) • trusted computing • security enforcement

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Security and Trust

Publication

Security and Communication Networks

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

11

Last Page

22

ISSN

1939-0122

Identifier

10.1002/sec.179

Publisher

Wiley

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sec.179

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS