SpartanRPC: Secure WSN middleware for cooperating domains

Author

Chapin, Peter ; Skalka, Christian

Author_Institution

Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

8-12 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

70

Abstract

In this paper we describe SpartanRPC, a secure middleware technology for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications supporting cooperation between distinct protection domains. The SpartanRPC system extends the nesC programming language to provide a link-layer remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism, along with an extension of nesC configuration wirings that allow specification of remote, dynamic endpoints. SpartanRPC also incorporates a capability-based security architecture for protection of RPC resources in a heterogeneous trust environment, via language-level policy specification and enforcement. We discuss an implementation of SpartanRPC based on program transformation and AES cryptography, and present empirical performance results.

Keywords

cryptography; formal specification; middleware; remote procedure calls; specification languages; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; AES cryptography; RPC mechanism; SpartanRPC system; capability-based security architecture; cooperating domain; heterogeneous trust environment; language-level policy specification; link-layer remote procedure call; nesC programming language; program transformation; secure WSN middleware; wireless sensor network; Security; Semantics; Servers; Syntactics; Wireless sensor networks; Wires; Wiring; capability-based security; remote procedure call; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2010 IEEE 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

2155-6806

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7488-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.2010.5663965

Filename

5663965