A Lightweight Trust Design for IoT Routing

Abstract

This research proposes a conceptual framework for achieving a secure Internet of Things (IoT) routing that will enforce confidentiality and integrity during the routing process in IoT networks. With billions of IoT devices likely to be interconnected globally, the big issue is how to secure the routing of data in the underlying networks from various forms of attacks. Users will not feel secure if they know their private data could easily be accessed and compromised by unauthorized individuals or machines over the network. It is within this context that we present the design of SecTrust, a lightweight secure trust-based routing framework to identify and isolate common routing attacks in IoT networks. The proposed framework is based on the successful interactions between the IoT sensor nodes, which effectively is a reflection of their trustworthy behavior.