Title: SOS: a secure social-aware credit-based stimulating mechanism for BikeNet

Authors: Guowei Wu; Jia Wang; Lin Yao; Chi Lin; Jianfei Zhao; Yuan Zhang

Addresses: School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116600, China ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116600, China ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116600, China ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116600, China ' School of Electronic Information Engineering, North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang 065201, China ' Electrical Engineering College, Northeast Dianli University, Jilin 132012, China

Abstract: BikeNet is a class of mobile sensing system for cyclists characterised by limited bandwidth capacity, small size and high mobility. Thus, the data propagation process follows the principles and techniques of opportunistic networks. However, as the mobile devices embedded in the bicycle are managed by rational individuals, the selfish behaviours that attempt to conserve their resources can significantly degrade the network performance. In this paper, a secure social-aware credit-based stimulating mechanism for BikeNet, called SOS, is proposed to encourage the cooperation among nodes while resisting the malicious attacks. The social context information is utilised to formulate the routing and data forwarding strategy. Moreover, to guarantee the security of nodes and enhance the confidentiality and integrity of messages, we propose identity-based cryptosystems based on social attributes for BikeNet. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate that SOS can effectively stimulate the cooperation of nodes while keeping the confidentiality and integrity of messages.

Keywords: BikeNet; social awareness; selfish nodes; stimulation; security analysis; mobile sensing; cyclists; opportunistic networks; cycling; malicious attacks; node cooperation; routing; data forwarding; identity-based cryptosystems; cryptography; mobile devices; bicycles; embedded systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2014.064346

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014 Vol.16 No.2, pp.113 - 124

Received: 01 Feb 2013
Accepted: 06 Aug 2013

Published online: 19 Aug 2014 *

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