Agent-Based Resilient and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications

无线传感器网络（WSN）通常由大量分布式传感器组成，这些传感器通过无线链路互连，用于物理和环境监测目的。沿着感测和监测能力，无线传感器相互协作和通信，以传递、共享和处理感测信息，并通过触发适当的警报和动作来辅助实时决策过程。现有的无线传感器网络应用已经对各种真实的世界领域产生了重大影响，包括军事和国土安全，环境监测，工业机器健康监测和控制，智能家居和智能建筑。然而，可靠性，安全性和隐私问题已被确定为在大多数应用领域广泛部署该技术的主要障碍。这项研究计划的目的是解决无线传感器网络的可靠性，安全性和隐私的挑战。在系统层面，将应用智能软件代理技术，增强无线传感器网络的协作、协调、自配置和容错能力，以确保无线传感器网络的可靠性和弹性。在通信层面，通过采用健壮、容错的通信机制和数据完整性验证，实现传感器和控制器的准确认证，有效增强无线传感器网络的安全性和隐私性。具体而言，无线传感器网络传感器之间的通信中继将被引入，其中来自中继传感器的额外安全风险将由所提出的认证技术来控制。最后，在此研究计划期间开发的所有技术和解决方案将与工业合作伙伴合作，在工厂自动化，智能家居和智能建筑等应用领域进行演示。这些技术的成功利用将显着提高无线传感器网络的有用性和可采用性为目标的应用领域，并最终提供和提高自动化和真实的时间决策能力，在加拿大的制造业和建筑业，这反过来又有助于提高这些行业的生产力和盈利能力。

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) typically consists of a large number of distributed sensors interconnected through wireless links for physical and environmental monitoring purposes. Along with sensing and monitoring capabilities, wireless sensors cooperate and communicate with themselves to deliver, share and process sensed information and assist real-time decision-making procedures through triggering appropriate alerts and actions. Existing WSN applications have already made significant impacts on a variety of real world domains including military & homeland security, environmental monitoring, industrial machine-health monitoring and control, smart homes and intelligent buildings. However, reliability, security and privacy concerns have been identified as the major obstacles to the wide deployment of this technology in most application domains. The objective of this proposed research program is to address the challenges of reliability, security, and privacy in WSN. At the system level, intelligent software agent technologies will be applied to enhance the WSN capabilities on collaboration, coordination, self-configuration and fault tolerance so as to ensure the reliability and resilience of WSN. At the communication level, WSN security and privacy will be effectively enhanced by adopting robust and fault tolerant communication mechanisms and data integrity verification; and implementing accurate authentication of sensors and controllers. Specifically, communication relays among the WSN sensors will be introduced, where the additional security risks from the relay sensors will be controlled by the proposed authentication techniques. Finally, all the technologies and solutions developed during this research program will be demonstrated in the application domains of factory automation, smart home and intelligent building, in collaboration with industrial partners. Successful utilization of these technologies will significantly improve the usefulness and adoptability of wireless sensor networks for targeted application domains, and will ultimately provide and enhance automated and real time decision-making capabilities in Canada's manufacturing and construction industries, which in turn, help increase productivity and profitability of these industries.