A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks
Low power over wireless personal area networks (LoWPAN), in particular wireless sensor networks, represent an emerging technology with high potential to be employed in critical situations like security surveillance, battlefields, smart-grids, and in e-health applications. The support of security ser...
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| author | Amaro F. de Sousa Jaime Lloret Luís M. L. Oliveira Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues |
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| description | Low power over wireless personal area networks (LoWPAN), in particular wireless sensor networks, represent an emerging technology with high potential to be employed in critical situations like security surveillance, battlefields, smart-grids, and in e-health applications. The support of security services in LoWPAN is considered a challenge. First, this type of networks is usually deployed in unattended environments, making them vulnerable to security attacks. Second, the constraints inherent to LoWPAN, such as scarce resources and limited battery capacity, impose a careful planning on how and where the security services should be deployed. Besides protecting the network from some well-known threats, it is important that security mechanisms be able to withstand attacks that have not been identified before. One way of reaching this goal is to control, at the network access level, which nodes can be attached to the network and to enforce their security compliance. This paper presents a network access security framework that can be used to control the nodes that have access to the network, based on administrative approval, and to enforce security compliance to the authorized nodes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85a123d9843948efbc90537d73c982672022-12-22T04:01:36ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202013-01-011311210123010.3390/s130101210A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN NetworksAmaro F. de SousaJaime LloretLuís M. L. OliveiraJoel J. P. C. RodriguesLow power over wireless personal area networks (LoWPAN), in particular wireless sensor networks, represent an emerging technology with high potential to be employed in critical situations like security surveillance, battlefields, smart-grids, and in e-health applications. The support of security services in LoWPAN is considered a challenge. First, this type of networks is usually deployed in unattended environments, making them vulnerable to security attacks. Second, the constraints inherent to LoWPAN, such as scarce resources and limited battery capacity, impose a careful planning on how and where the security services should be deployed. Besides protecting the network from some well-known threats, it is important that security mechanisms be able to withstand attacks that have not been identified before. One way of reaching this goal is to control, at the network access level, which nodes can be attached to the network and to enforce their security compliance. This paper presents a network access security framework that can be used to control the nodes that have access to the network, based on administrative approval, and to enforce security compliance to the authorized nodes.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/1/1210wireless sensor networksWSN6LoWPANnetwork access control |
| spellingShingle | Amaro F. de Sousa Jaime Lloret Luís M. L. Oliveira Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks Sensors wireless sensor networks WSN 6LoWPAN network access control |
| title | A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks |
| title_full | A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks |
| title_fullStr | A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks |
| title_short | A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks |
| title_sort | network access control framework for 6lowpan networks |
| topic | wireless sensor networks WSN 6LoWPAN network access control |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/1/1210 |
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