A security routing model based on trust for medical sensor networks

Abstract

With the development of medical sensor networks, the security has becomes an important issue. In this paper, a security routing model based on trust is proposed for medical sensor networks. To measure the credibility of each path from the source master node to the base station, a calculation method with Tsallis entropy is put forward on the basis of trust values of intermediate master nodes in the path. With the properties of Tsallis entropy, path Tsallis entropy can comprehensively reflect the uncertainty of all the intermediate nodes in each path. Based on this, the trust value of each path is obtained. Therefore the path with the maximum trust value is selected to transfer the data from the multiple paths. Simulation experiments show that the proposed model enables the transfer to effectively avoid such paths containing the low-trust nodes, so that the packet successful delivery rate has a great improvement and the ability against malicious attacks is also enhanced.