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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)s are a exciting development with very large potential to have a significant beneficial impact on every aspect of our lives while generating huge opportunities for European industry. What is needed to kick off the development and exploitation of WSNs is an architecture for medium and large scale wireless sensor networks integrating comprehensive security capabilities right from the concept stage. This would support the rapid development of sensor networks and would open up the application domain for commercial activities. UbiSec&Sens intends to solve this by providing a comprehensive architecture for medium and large scale wireless sensor networks with the full level of security that will make them trusted and secure for all applications. In addition UbiSec&Sens will provide a complete tool box of security aware components which, together with the UbiSec&Sens radically new design cycle for secure sensor networks, will enable the rapid development of trusted sensor network applications.
The UbiSec&Sens approach is to use three representative WSN scenarios to iteratively determine solutions for the key WSN issues of scalability, security, reliability, self-healing and robustness. This will also give a clearer understanding of the real-world WSN requirements and limitations as well as identifying how to achieve a successful rollout of WSNs.
UbiSec&Sens will provide a comprehensive architecture for medium and large scale wireless sensor networks with the full level of security that will make them trusted and secure for all applications. The overall project goals are to:
♦ Focus the work on the intersection of security, routing and in-network
processing to design and develop efficient and effective security
solutions and to offer effective means for persistent and encrypted data
storage for distributed (and tiny) data base approaches
♦ Provide a complete toolbox of security aware components for sensor
network application development. We aim at extremely energy-efficient
and condensed data transmission as well as highly robust and reliable
solutions for concrete WSNs that, at the same time, still provide an
appropriate level of security
♦ Prototype and validate the UbiSec&Sens solutions in the representative
wireless sensor application scenarios of agriculture, road services and
homeland security
The figure below illustrates the project’s centre of gravity and zooms into it
by classifying the project’s key objectives.
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The UbiSec&Sens centre of gravity and key objectives. |
The technical areas of interest to UbiSec&Sens are identified and
elaborated here.
For more information, please look at the project's work package
decriptions of "Architecture" WP0, "Networking" WP1, "Network Security"
WP2, "Middleware and Middleware Security" WP3, "Integration" WP4 and
"Management" WP5.
The results of UbiSec&Sens are a necessary step to progress the field of security and communication research in Europe and, as well as advancing the competitiveness of the European industry, they assist the European Commission to develop more comprehensive programs for innovative socially and economically beneficial sens
UbiSec&Sens is a Specific Target Research Project (STReP) in the thematic priority 'Towards a global dependability and security framework' of the EU Framework Programme 6 for Research and Development. 8 partners from industry and academia are involved in the project. The project started in January 2006 and has a duration of 3 years. For
information on IST activities on Security and Dependability please visit
the Information Society Technologies Webpage on ICT for Trust and
Security.
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