Hardened Registration Process for Participatory Sensing

Jatesada Borsub, Panos Papadimitratos
2018 Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks - WiSec '18  
This study was completed towards completing the requirements of the Master's Program in Systems, Control and Robotics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I would like to give special thanks to my examiner, Panos Papadimitratos, and my supervisor, Hongyu Jin, for all their support be it understanding, suggestions or guidance during all the phases of this work from the beginning until the end of the work. I would also like to thank people in Networked Systems Security Group at KTH who gave me
more » ... mmends and ideas to improve my work. Last but not least, I would like to thank Tattaton Mettaphun, Boonyakiat Rungsiwothinan, Wichapong Kua-Arun, Surapat Somsri, Nonthawun Junsrisuk, my family and my girlfriend who supported me during my endeavour of studying. Without their support, my Master's degree could not have been successfully completed. ii Abstract Participatory sensing systems need to gather information from a large number of participants. However, the openness of the system is a doubleedged sword: by allowing practically any user to join, the system can be abused by an attacker who introduces a large number of virtual devices. This work proposes a hardened registration process for participatory sensing to raise the bar: registrations are screened through a number of defensive measures, towards rejecting spurious registrations that do not correspond to actual devices. This deprives an adversary from a relatively easy take-over and, at the same time, allows a flexible and open registration process. The defensive measures are incorporated in the participatory sensing application. Abstrakt Deltagande avkännings system behöver samlas från ett stort antal aktörer. Systems öppenhet är dock en dubbelsidigt värd: Genom att låta alla praktiska användare deltagit, kan system utnyttja en av angripare som introducera ett stort antal virtuella enheter. I det här arbetet föreslå en härda registreringsprocess för deltagare att identifiera höjning av ribban: registrering screenas genom ett antal defensiva åtgärders, för att avvisa falska registreringar som inte motsvara aktuella enheter. Detta berövar en motståndare från en relativt lätt övertagande och ger samtidigt en flexibel och öppen registreringsprocess. De defensiva åtgärderna införlivas i deltagande avkännings applikation.
doi:10.1145/3212480.3226109 dblp:conf/wisec/BorsubP18 fatcat:o2fo34zvobfzjpkftxcp52xyey