Trust Based Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless sensor nodes have been successfully employed in various pervasive applications. In all pervasive applications, a gathering of sensor data from the environment is the main operation held in a sensor network, where sink node or base station gathers all generated data to do data analysis and decision making. The data generated by the sensor node in the pervasive environment should be transmitted to the sink node for data analysis and decision making. We strongly conceive that each process from perceiving the environment to decision making, demands trust based process to ease and ensure the trustworthy data exchange among trustworthy nodes such as trust-based data collection, trust-based data aggregation, trust-based data reconstruction and trust-based data analysis for decision making. In this work, we propose a Trust-based Data Gathering which focus on trust-based data collection, data aggregation, and data reconstruction to show that the absence of trust in a sensor-driven pervasive environment could affect the normal functionality of an application. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance in detecting data faults, malicious nodes and demonstrates that the absence of trust based process in data collection, data aggregation, and data reconstruction in harsh environment consumes more energy and delay for handling untrustworthy data, untrustworthy node and affects the normal functionality of the application.