TACIoT: multidimensional trust-aware access control system for the Internet of Things

Internet of Things environments are comprised of heterogeneous devices that are continuously exchanging information and being accessed ubiquitously through lossy networks. This drives the need of a flexible, lightweight and adaptive access control mechanism to cope with the pervasive nature of such...

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Published inSoft computing (Berlin, Germany) Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 1763 - 1779
Main Authors Bernal Bernabe, Jorge, Hernandez Ramos, Jose Luis, Skarmeta Gomez, Antonio F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Access control
Adaptive control
Artificial Intelligence
Communication
Computational Intelligence
Control
Cybersecurity
Energy consumption
Engineering
Focus
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy sets
Internet of Things
Lightweight
Mathematical Logic and Foundations
Mechatronics
Proposals
Reputations
Robotics
Simulation
Trust
Trustworthiness
Access control
Security framework
Internet of Things
Trust model
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Summary:Internet of Things environments are comprised of heterogeneous devices that are continuously exchanging information and being accessed ubiquitously through lossy networks. This drives the need of a flexible, lightweight and adaptive access control mechanism to cope with the pervasive nature of such global ecosystem, ensuring, at the same time, reliable communications between trusted devices. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a flexible trust-aware access control system for IoT (TACIoT), which provides an end-to-end and reliable security mechanism for IoT devices, based on a lightweight authorization mechanism and a novel trust modelthat has been specially devised for IoT environments. TACIoT extends traditional access control systems by taking into account trust values which are based on reputation, quality of service, security considerations and devices’ social relationships. TACIoT has been implemented and evaluated successfully in a real testbed for constrained and non-constrained IoT devices.
ISSN:1432-7643
1433-7479
DOI:10.1007/s00500-015-1705-6