STaR: Security Transparency and Reconfigurability for Wireless Sensor Networks Programming

Roberta Daidone, Gianluca Dini, Marco Tiloca

2013

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are prone to security attacks. To protect the network from potential adversaries, it is necessary to secure communications between sensor nodes. If we consider a network of heterogeneous objects including WSNs, security requirements may be far more complex. A single application may deal with different traffic flows, each one of which may have different security requirements, that possibly change over time. In this paper, we present STaR, a software component which provides security transparency and reconfigurability for WSNs programming. STaR allows for securing multiple traffic flows at the same time according to specified security policies, and is transparent to the application, i.e. no changes to the original application or the communication protocol are required. STaR can be easily reconfigured at runtime, thus coping with changes of security requirements. Finally, we present our implementation of STaR for Tmote Sky motes, and evaluate it in terms of memory occupancy, communication overhead, and energy consumption.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Daidone R., Dini G. and Tiloca M. (2013). STaR: Security Transparency and Reconfigurability for Wireless Sensor Networks Programming . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS, ISBN 978-989-8565-45-7, pages 35-40. DOI: 10.5220/0004205200350040

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sensornets13,
author={Roberta Daidone and Gianluca Dini and Marco Tiloca},
title={STaR: Security Transparency and Reconfigurability for Wireless Sensor Networks Programming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,},
year={2013},
pages={35-40},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004205200350040},
isbn={978-989-8565-45-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks - Volume 1: SENSORNETS,
TI - STaR: Security Transparency and Reconfigurability for Wireless Sensor Networks Programming
SN - 978-989-8565-45-7
AU - Daidone R.
AU - Dini G.
AU - Tiloca M.
PY - 2013
SP - 35
EP - 40
DO - 10.5220/0004205200350040