Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 811-821Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2020.3020313
Keywords
Security; Learning (artificial intelligence); Mobile computing; Computational modeling; Adaptation models; Acoustic sensors; Data models; Underwater acoustic sensor networks; reinforcement learning; trust update; environment model
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFC0407900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61971206]
- Open fund of State Key Laboratory of Acoustics [SKLA201901]
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In this study, a novel trust update mechanism for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) based on reinforcement learning (TUMRL) is proposed, aiming to improve the security of UASNs. The mechanism quantifies the impact of underwater fluctuations in sensor data through an environment model and defines key degree to protect important nodes in the network. It also employs reinforcement learning to adapt to changing attack modes.
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have been widely applied in marine scenarios, such as offshore exploration, auxiliary navigation and marine military. Due to the limitations in communication, computation, and storage of underwater sensor nodes, traditional security mechanisms are not applicable to UASNs. Recently, various trust models have been investigated as effective tools towards improving the security of UASNs. However, the existing trust models lack flexible trust update rules, particularly when facing the inevitable dynamic fluctuations in the underwater environment and a wide spectrum of potential attack modes. In this study, a novel trust update mechanism for UASNs based on reinforcement learning (TUMRL) is proposed. The scheme is developed in three phases. First, an environment model is designed to quantify the impact of underwater fluctuations in the sensor data, which assists in updating the trust scores. Then, the definition of key degree is given; in the process of trust update, nodes with higher key degree react more sensitively to malicious attacks, thereby better protecting important nodes in the network. Finally, a novel trust update mechanism based on reinforcement learning is presented, to withstand changing attack modes while achieving efficient trust update. The experimental results prove that our proposed scheme has satisfactory performance in improving trust update efficiency and network security.
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