Chance discovery based security service selection for social P2P based sensor networks

Social Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a novel model to organize sensor networks, which can establish social relationships in an autonomous way with the benefits of extending the network boundaries and enhancing the network scalability. However, the complexity and time dependence characteristics introduced by social P2P model raise difficulties for assessing and selecting security services accurately and effectively in sensor networks. To address this, we propose a chance discovery based security service selection scheme for social P2P based sensor networks. We firstly establish the security assessment model for services in social P2P based sensor networks, regarding the security factors of exploitability, credibility, severity, confidentiality, integrality, availability and importance weight. More importantly, time dependence characteristics introduced by social P2P are considered during security assessment. Next, a security service selection scheme is proposed based on KeyGraph construction as well as the computation of its connection and tightness values. Finally, the service request forwarding model is established. The simulation results show the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed security service selection scheme, which improves the feasibility and security of integrated sensor network and social networks.