Title
A Framework for Security and Workload Gradual Adaptation.
Abstract
Providing a balanced trade-off among performances, security, and energy consumption is a key challenge in embedded systems. Traditional security solutions assume a well-known and static operating environment, thus leading to a static system configuration that cannot be tailed to the system conditions. Wireless sensor networks are a good example of typical embedded systems. In this work we propose a framework that reduces energy consumption in nodes of wireless sensor networks. The framework allows the system to self-modify its security and workload settings. Adaptations are performed by moving to adjacent configuration and, thus, this mechanism is named gradual adaptation. In this paper we discuss the policies that can be used to control the adaptations and we present the results obtained when implementing a case study on Sun SPOT nodes. The results show that the use of the framework increases the energy efficiency of the network nodes. Furthermore, they show the effects of the different policies on the behavior of nodes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
SECRYPT
framework,security,cryptography,wireless sensor networks,performances,optimization,adaptation
Field
DocType
Citations 
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Operating environment,Workload,Computer security,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Sun SPOT,Computer network,Node (networking),Wireless sensor network,Energy consumption,Distributed computing
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Taddeo1417.74
Luis Germán García Morales201.01
Alberto Ferrante37813.68