Best Readings Topics on Communications and Information Systems Security

Xiaohui Liang, Xu Li, Qinghua Shen, Rongxing Lu, Xiaodong Lin, Xuemin Shen, and Weihua Zhuang, “Prediction to Enable Secure and Reliable Routing in Wireless Body Area Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM’12, pp. 388-396, 2012. In this paper, we propose a distributed Prediction-based Secure and Reliable routing framework (PSR) for emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). It can be integrated with a specific routing protocol to improve the latter's reliability and prevent data injection attacks during data communication. Specially-tailored lightweight source and data authentication methods are employed by nodes to secure data communication. Further, each node adaptively enables or disables source authentication according to predicted neighbor set change and prediction accuracy so as to quickly filter false source authentication requests. We demonstrate that PSR significantly increases routing reliability and effectively resists data injection attacks through simulations.