Trust attestation mechanism for the sensing layer nodes of Internet of Things

The main function of Internet of Things is to collect and transmit data. At present, the data transmission in Internet of Things lacks effective trust attestation mechanism and trust traceability mechanism of data source. To solve the above problems, a trust attestation mechanism for sensing layer nodes is presented. First a trusted group is established, and the node which is going to join the group needs to attest its identity and key attributes to the higher level node. Then the dynamic trust measurement value of the node can be obtained by measuring the node data transmission behavior. Finally the node encapsulates the key attributes and trust measurement value to use short message group signature to attest its trust to the challenger. This mechanism can measure the data sending and receiving behaviors of sensing nodes and track the data source, and it does not expose the privacy information of nodes and the sensing nodes can be traced effectively. The trust measurement for sensing nodes and verification is applicable to Internet of Things and the simulation experiment shows the trust attestation mechanism is flexible, practical and efficient. Besides, it can accurately and quickly identify the malicious nodes at the same time. The impact on the system performance is negligible.