SEAMLESS Project: Development of a Performing Secure Platform for IEEE 802.15.4 WSN Applications
Luigi Pomante, M. Pugliese, Luciano Bozzi, Walter Tiberti, D. Grimani, Fortunato Santucci · 2020
This paper deals with the design and implementation of security mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) based applications, without the support of external “resource unconstrained” facilities. In particular, this paper provides a global overview of a long lasting research project and then reports on recent design upgrades denoted as the “Secure Platform”. This has been the target of the SEAMLESS Project, that was oriented to design and validate monitoring architectures for Internet of Things services such as services ranging from featuring temperature, humidity, pressure, light, accelerometer, GPS to non-conventional operational scenarios for military surveillance. This paper then reports security and performance test results of the main components in the “Secure Platform”: the Topology Authenticated Key Scheme (TAKS) and the WPM-based Intrusion Detection System (WIDS). The measurement campaign involved the typical parameters (e.g., encryption / decryption time, key generation time) and a conventional statistical analysis on the results has been also performed.