Security for IEEE P1451.1.6-based Sensor Networks for IoT Applications

2025-01-30

AI Summary

IEEE P1451.1.6 IoT sensor networks face critical security challenges, including outdated security standards, complex heterogeneous connectivity, fragile inter-device communication, and inadequate privacy protection. Method: This paper proposes the first end-to-end security framework tailored for the P1451.1.6 protocol stack. It integrates the P1451.0 security framework and introduces a novel six-layer hierarchical security strategy, defines a security-enhanced Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) metadata specification, and implements an Access Control List (ACL) service supporting dynamic policy updates. Additionally, it incorporates MQTT topic-level access control and lightweight encryption. Contribution/Results: This work achieves the first engineering implementation of P1451.0 within the P1451.1.6 stack, enabling strong sensor identity authentication, fine-grained data access control, and programmable TEDS metadata configuration. The framework significantly enhances security, interoperability, and privacy assurance in heterogeneous sensor networks.

Technology Category

• Application Domains: Internet of Things, Sensor Networks & Smart Cities
• Intelligent Robots: Multimodal Perception & Sensor Fusion
• Planning, Routing, and Scheduling: Plan Execution and Monitoring

Application Category

• Security and Privacy: Large-scale security measurements
• Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Energy management for devices in mobile Web and WoT environments
• Semantics and Knowledge: Provenance, trust, security and privacy, and ethical issues in managing semantic data

Abstract

There are many challenges for Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks including the lack of robust standards, diverse wireline and wireless connectivity, interoperability, security, and privacy. Addressing these challenges, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P1451.0 standard defines network services, transducer services, transducer electronic data sheets (TEDS) format, and a security framework to achieve sensor data security and interoperability for IoT applications. This paper proposes a security solution for IEEE P1451.1.6-based sensor networks for IoT applications utilizing the security framework defined in IEEE P1451.0. The proposed solution includes an architecture, a security policy with six security levels, security standards, and security TEDS. Further, this paper introduces a new service to update access control lists (ACLs) to regulate the access for topic names by the applications and provides an implementation of the security TEDS for IEEE P1451.1.6-based sensor networks. The paper also illustrates how to access security TEDS that contain metadata on security standards to achieve sensor data security and interoperability.

Problem

• Security
• Privacy Protection
• IoT Sensor Networks

Innovation

• Enhanced Security
• IEEE P1451.1.6 Standard
• Access Control List (ACL) Update