Data provenance and trust establishment in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of heterogeneous networks encompassing various forms of communications form the current traditional communication models to ubiquitous and pervasive machine to machine communications. In such an ever expanding, dynamic, and complex environment, it becomes vital to know the origin or the source of data and whether this data can be trusted or no. This requires not only accurate, secure, and correct data...