Paper Info
Title
Opportunistic mobility support for resource constrained sensor devices in smart cities.
Abstract
A multitude of wireless sensor devices and technologies are being developed and deployed in cities all over the world. Sensor applications in city environments may include highly mobile installations that span large areas which necessitates sensor mobility support. This paper presents and validates two mechanisms for supporting sensor mobility between different administrative domains. Firstly, EAP-Swift, an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)-based sensor authentication protocol is proposed that enables light-weight sensor authentication and key generation. Secondly, a mechanism for handoffs between wireless sensor gateways is proposed. We validate both mechanisms in a real-life study that was conducted in a smart city environment with several fixed sensors and moving gateways. We conduct similar experiments in an industry-based anechoic Long Term Evolution (LTE) chamber with an ideal radio environment. Further, we validate our results collected from the smart city environment against the results produced under ideal conditions to establish best and real-life case scenarios. Our results clearly validate that our proposed mechanisms can facilitate efficient sensor authentication and handoffs while sensors are roaming in a smart city environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/s150305112
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
smart cities,WSN,sensors,EAP-Swift
Key generation,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Authentication,Wireless,Computer network,Electronic engineering,Authentication protocol,Smart city,Extensible Authentication Protocol,Engineering,Roaming,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
3.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Granlund1324.19
Patrik Holmlund240.81
Christer Åhlund382.07