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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2008.15-C.1.9

Mutual Attestation Protocol using Software-based Attestation Scheme in Sensor Network Environments  

Heo, Kyung-Soo (성균관대학교 이동통신공학과)
Choi, Hyun-Woo (성균관대학교 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
Jang, Hyun-Su (성균관대학교 전기전자및컴퓨터공학과)
Eom, Young-Ik (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartC / v.15C, no.1, 2008 , pp. 9-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
Prevention of attacks being made through program modification in sensor nodes is one of the important security issues. The software-based attestation technology that verifies the running code by checking whether it is modified or not in sensor nodes is being used to solve the attack problem. However, the current software-based attestation techniques are not appropriate in sensor networks because not only they are targeting static networks that member nodes does not move, but also they lacks consideration on the environment that the trusted verifier may not exist. This paper proposes a mutual attestation protocol that is suitable for sensor networks by using SWATT(Software-based ATTestation) technique. In the proposed protocol, sensor nodes periodically notify its membership to neighbor nodes and carry out mutual attestation procedure with neighbor nodes by using SWATT technique. With the proposed protocol, verification device detects the sensor nodes compromised by malicious attacks in the sensor network environments without trusted verifier and the sensor networks can be composed of only the verified nodes.
Keywords
Sensor network; Sensor network security; Mutual Attestation; SWATT(Software-based ATTestation);
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