Impact of Signal-Strength on Trusted and Secure Clustering in Mobile Pervasive Environment

Abstract

This Proposed work is further extension of our previous work, cluster based Soft Security trust metric evaluation in Mobile Pervasive Environment. Pervasive computing has the potential to provide low cost, high performance, and user centric solutions to exchange the information and communicate seamlessly in highly dynamic, heterogeneous environment where small and powerful dissimilar devices or nodes have to establish independent network unknown by the user. Communicating devices or nodes are resource-restricted and equipped with micro or bio sensors to acknowledge the signals. To provide promising level of security assurance traditional security systems based on cryptography and encryption are not sufficient. In this paper we present extension of our previous work where we observe node's impulsive behavior to become malicious as a soft security factors and propose a trusted cluster formation with security and energy efficiency considerations in the subjective area. In this work we analyses impact of signal-strength attacks while cluster communication on trust degree and level of security. In winding up, we put our efforts to validate the proposed approach and present comparison with other similar schemes for significant adaptation of trustworthy and secure communication where information is ubiquitous.