Trusted Sensors: Design and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 445
Special Issue Editors
Interests: trusted hardware; hardware security; microelectronic design of crypto and biometric systems; wearable and IoT devices; neuro and fuzzy systems
Interests: trusted hardware devices; lightweight security; physically unclonable functions (PUFs); crypto-biometric systems; multibiometrics; fuzzy logic; microelectronic implementations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Taking into account that sensors are usually part of ubiquitous and distributed networks, the trustworthiness of sensed data is becoming increasingly important. Since sensors allow interaction with the physical world, cyber-attacks can now enter into the physical world and, hence, can cause physical harm. In addition, sensors can measure sensitive and private information so that both the sender and the receiver of the sensed data must trust in the data originating from the sensor. Not only data integrity but also sensor authenticity must be ensured. Avoiding counterfeiting is very important because fake sensors do not usually meet the required quality provided by legitimate sensors. In addition, fake sensors can be the trapdoor for malicious activities. Concerning forensic analysis, trusted sensors that reduce repudiation attacks can achieve a digital chain of custody.
The design of efficient trusted sensors requires novel software and hardware solutions that do not consume a significant amount of resources of the sensor node in terms of, for example, power or latency. Security and cost requirements depend on the devices where the sensors are included (IoT, wearable, or mobile) and the application domain (secure sensor networks or participatory sensing systems). To bring different facets of trusted sensing together, papers reporting novel design and applications of trusted sensors are invited for submission to this Special Issue. The core themes of this topic include but are not limited to:
- Advances in hardware design for trusted sensors
- Novel software solutions for trusted sensors
- Tamper-proof and tamper-resistant designs of sensor nodes
- Authenticity, integrity, privacy, and non-repudiation issues on sensed data
- Applications in the Internet of Things, wearable, and mobile devices
- Applications in secure sensor networks and participatory sensing systems
- Applications in digital chain of custody
Dr. Iluminada Baturone
Dr. Rosario Arjona
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sensor security
- Circuits and systems for trusted sensors
- Trusted execution environment for sensors
- Trusted communication protocols for sensed data
- Tamper-proof and tamper-resistant designs
- Use cases with trusted sensor nodes
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