Fine-grained data access control for distributed sensor networks

作     者：Hur, Junbeom 

作者机构：Univ Illinois Dept Comp Sci Urbana IL 61801 USA 

出 版 物：《WIRELESS NETWORKS》 (无线网络)

年 卷 期：2011年第17卷第5期

页      面：1235-1249页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Distributed sensor networks Attribute-based encryption Revocation Access control 

摘      要：Distributed sensor networks are becoming a robust solution that allows users to directly access data generated by individual sensors. In many practical scenarios, fine-grained access control is a pivotal security requirement to enhance usability and protect sensitive sensor information from unauthorized access. Recently, there have been proposed many schemes to adapt public key cryptosystems into sensor systems consisting of high-end sensor nodes in order to enforce security policy efficiently. However, the drawback of these approaches is that the complexity of computation increases linear to the expressiveness of the access policy. Key-policy attribute-based encryption is a promising cryptographic solution to enforce fine-grained access policies on the sensor data. However, the problem of applying it to distributed sensor networks introduces several challenges with regard to the attribute and user revocation. In this paper, we propose an access control scheme using KP-ABE with efficient attribute and user revocation capability for distributed sensor networks that are composed of high-end sensor devices. They can be achieved by the proxy encryption mechanism which takes advantage of attribute-based encryption and selective group key distribution. The analysis results indicate that the proposed scheme achieves efficient user access control while requiring the same computation overhead at each sensor as the previous schemes.