Dependable and Secure Sensor Data Storage with Dynamic Integrity Assurance

Abstract—Recently, distributed data storage has gained increasing popularity for efficient and robust data management in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). But the distributed architecture also makes it challenging to build a highly secure and dependable yet lightweight data storage system. On the one hand, sensor data are subject to not only Byzantine failures, but also dynamic pollution attacks, as along the time the adversary may modify/pollute the stored data by compromising individual sensors. On the other hand, the resource-constrained nature of WSNs precludes the applicability of heavyweight security designs. To address the challenges, we propose a novel dependable and secure data storage scheme with dynamic integrity assurance in this paper. Based on the principle of secret sharing and erasure coding, we first propose a hybrid share generation and distribution scheme to achieve reliable and fault-tolerant initial data storage by providing redundancy for original data componen...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Yanchao Zhang
• Keywords: Communications, Data Storage, Data Storage Scheme, Distributed Data Storage, INFOCOM 2009