Internet of things: where to be is to trust

Abstract

Networks' creation is getting more and more required, anytime, anywhere. Devices that can participate on these networks can be quite different among them. Sensors, mobiles, home appliances, or other type of devices will have to collaborate to increase and improve the services provided to clients. In the same way, network configuration, security mechanisms establishment, and optimal performance control must be done by them. Some of these devices could have limited resources to work, sometimes even resources restriction not existing, they must work to optimize network traffic. In this article, we center our researching on spontaneous networks. We propose a secure spontaneous ad-hoc network, based on direct peer-to-peer interaction and communities' creation to grant a quick, easy, and secure access to users to surf the Web. Each device will have an identity in the network. Each community will also have an identity and will act as a unity on a world based on Internet connection. Security will be established in the moment they access to the network through the use of the trust chain generated by nodes. Trust is modified by each node on the basis of nodes behavior.

Personal Data Collection in the Workplace: Ethical and Technical Challenges

“…Secure and trustworthy computing typically focuses on resource-rich environments or hard security measures (e.g., encryption, signatures and certificates) that are typically energy hungry (e.g., Kumar and Madria (2015); Kothmayr et al (2013)). Only a few studies address the specific challenges of trust in IoT (e.g., Bao and Chen (2012) ;Lacuesta et al (2012)), and none take into consideration the characteristics of rugged environments, making their findings not applicable in such environments. Trust in IoT data collection at user level has recently received more public attention, with users becoming aware of the potential for mis-use of information collected (Brennan 2015).…”

Mitigating On-Off Attacks in the Internet of Things Using a Distributed Trust Management Scheme

“…When devices trust each other, they prefer to share services and resources to certain extent. Trust management allows the computation and analysis of trust among devices to make suitable decision in order to establish efficient and reliable communication among devices [5,9,10]. Basically, trust management is the mechanisms to evaluate, establish, maintain, and revoke the trust between devices of the same or different networks within the IoT environment.…”

“…More recently, some work in trust management has been studied in the context of IoT [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

“…The inability of some objects in the IoT context of processing, storage, and limited power as well as the heterogeneity of the network and the different services to be offered under this new paradigm makes the development of new trust management mechanisms necessary. In IoT, all information about the user will be available online; creating an efficient lightweight trust management mechanism that fits the characteristics of each object is indispensable [8][9][10]. Also, trust management schemes are susceptible to attacks such as bad mouthing, selective attack, and On-Off attacks, which have to be considered in the system [11].…”

Editorial: Special issue on Internet of Things: convergence of sensing, networking, and web technologies

“…Toward addressing this issue the authors of "Internet of Things: Where to Be Is to Trust" [9] propose the adoption of direct peer-to-peer interaction and communities' creation to grant quick, easy, and secure access to users to surf the web. This way a secure spontaneous ad hoc network is created where access is established through the use of the trust chain generated by nodes.…”