FDAC: Toward Fine-Grained Distributed Data Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

—Distributed sensor data storage and retrieval has gained increasing popularity in recent years for supporting various applications. While distributed architecture enjoys a more robust and fault-tolerant wireless sensor network (WSN), such architecture also poses a number of security challenges especially when applied in mission-critical applications such as battle field and e-healthcare. First, as sensor data are stored and maintained by individual sensors and unattended sensors are easily subject to strong attacks such as physical compromise, it is significantly harder to ensure data security. Second, in many mission-critical applications, fine-grained data access control is a must as illegal access to the sensitive data may cause disastrous result and/or prohibited by the law. Last but not least, sensors usually are resource-scarce, which limits the direct adoption of expensive cryptographic primitives. To address the above challenges, we propose in this paper a distributed dat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou
• Keywords: Communications, Data Access Control, INFOCOM 2009, Sensor, Sensor Data