Acta Informatica Pragensia 2015, 4(3), 276-287 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.743993

A Fine-Grained Data Access Control System in Wireless Sensor Network

Boniface K. Alese, Sylvester O. Olatunji, Oluwatoyin C. Agbonifo, Aderonke F. Thompson
Computer Science Department, Federal University of Technology Akure, P.M.B. 704, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

The evolving realities of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployed to various terrain of life require serving multiple applications. As large amount of sensed data are distributed and stored in individual sensors nodes, the illegal access to these sensitive data can be devastating. Consequently, data insecurity becomes a big concern. This study, therefore, proposes a fine-grained access control system which only requires the right set of users to access a particular data, based on their access privileges in the sensor networks. It is designed using Priccess Protocol with Access policy formulation adopting the principle of Bell Lapadula model as well as Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) to control access to sensor data. The functionality of the proposed system is simulated using Netbeans. The performance analysis of the proposed system using execution time and size of the key show that the higher the key size, the harder it becomes for the attacker to hack the system. Additionally, the time taken for the proposed work is lesser which makes the work faster than the existing work. Consequently, a well secure interactive web-based application that could facilitates the field officers access to stored data in safe and secure manner is developed.

Keywords: Attribute-Based Signature (ABE), Bell Lapadula access policy model, Wireless sensor network (WSN), Fine-grained data access control, Security

Received: November 1, 2015; Revised: December 18, 2015; Accepted: December 24, 2015; Published: December 31, 2015  Show citation

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Alese, B.K., Olatunji, S.O., Agbonifo, O.C., & Thompson, A.F. (2015). A Fine-Grained Data Access Control System in Wireless Sensor Network. Acta Informatica Pragensia, 4(3), 276-287. doi: 10.18267/j.aip.74
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