Paper Info
Title
Adaptive Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Wireless Sensor Networks are used in a large number of tracking and monitoring applications. The level of security required by an application depends on the threat level, available resources, and security requirements. In this paper, we present a modular and extensible framework, called Adaptive Security Framework (ASF) that adjusts security to the detected threats, available energy and memory, and application requirements. The framework includes three types of components: the Context modules, the Security Adaptation module, and the Security layer. The security level is modified according to the output of the Context modules, and it is then used to enable the appropriate security primitives available in the Security layer. We evaluate our solution in multiple attack scenarios, we determine its resource consumption and we compare it to other State of the Art solutions. Our framework has the following advantages: it takes into consideration the context, but also allows for manual reconfiguration, it has a global, aggregated view of the context, it provides different authentication and encryption algorithms associated to each security level, it is extensible and modular.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/iNCoS.2012.94
INCoS
Keywords
Field
DocType
adaptive security framework,available energy,security level,available resource,appropriate security primitive,context module,security requirement,threat level,security layer,wireless sensor networks,security adaptation module,authentication,memory management,encryption
Data security,Network security policy,Computer science,Software security assurance,Covert channel,Computer network,Security service,Cloud computing security,Security information and event management,Computer security model,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laura Gheorghe1135.56
Razvan Rughinis22513.70
Nicolae Tapus38434.55