Special Issue "Sensor Network"

Guest Editor
Dr. Pierre Leone
TCS - Sensor Lab, Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, Battelle batiment A, Route de Drize 7, CH-1227 Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland
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Interests: sensor networks; energy balance mechanisms; dynamical analysis; geographic routing; optimal data propagation; networks lifetime

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• local (distributed) algorithms
• localized algorithms
• localization systems
• tracking/exploration algorithms
• wireless medium access control
• routing and data propagation algorithms
• geographic routing
• virtual coordinates and networks
• energy-aware algorithms
• energy models
• data gathering
• mobility in wireless sensor networks
• dynamic networks
• roving agents
• distributed collaborative information processing
• computation and programming model
• fault tolerance and dependability
• scheduling and load balancing
• network deployment and topology control

Type of Paper: Article
Title: Enforcing Security Mechanisms in the IP-based Internet of Things
Authors: S. Cirani, L. Veltri and G. Ferrari
Affniation: Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Italy; E-Mail: gianluigi.ferrari@unipr.it; simone.cirani@gmail.com; luca.veltri@unipr.it
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging concept which refers to billions of interconnected (non-human) information sources, also named smart objects, typically equipped with sensors or actuators, a tiny microprocessor, a communication interface, and a power source. Among the most notable challenges that building interconnected smart objects brings about, there are standardization and interoperability. The IPSO Alliance promotes the use of IP as the standard for interoperability for smart objects. As billions of smart objects are expected to come to life and IPv4 addresses have eventually reached depletion, IPv6 has been identified as a candidate for smart objects communication. The protocol stack that smart objects will implement will try to match classical Internet hosts in order to make it feasible to create the so-called Extended Internet, that is the aggregation of the Internet with the IoT. The latter faces many security issues coming from the very nature of smart objects and the use of standard protocols. This paper provides an overview of the security challenges at network, transport and application layers together with the proposed algorithms and solutions to cope with them.
Keywords: security; cryptography; Internet of Things; smart objects; secure communication protocols; secure data aggregation