Author: | H. Hof, E. Blaß, M. Zitterbart | links: | DownloadBibtex |
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Source: | First European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2004), Trier, Germany, August 2004 | ||
Sensor networks consist of a potentially huge number of very small and
resource limited self-organizing devices. Those devices offer different services
and use services provided by other sensor nodes. To give sensor nodes the
possibility to offer services and to network-wide search for available services,
some kind of lookup facility is needed. Several possibilities exist to realize
service lookup in traditional networks and ad-hoc networks. In this paper we present Secure Content
Addressable Networks Version 2 (SCANv2), a secure overlay focusing
especially on wireless sensor networks. The paper describes how this secure
overlay can be used among other things to offer lookup functionality in sensor
networks. The design of the overlay focuses on secure service lookups. The
overlay is part of the Karlsruhe Sensor Network Platform K-SNeP, a modular
and flexible architecture for service centric sensor networks. Key areas of
application of the architecture are gradually extendable service centric sensor
networks where sensors and actuators jointly perform various user defined
tasks, e.g. in the field of an office environment or health care.