The security of IOT from the perspective of the observability of complex networks

The Internet of Things (IOT) is based on the computer Internet, using RFID, wireless data communication and other technologies to construct a network covering everything in the world. It contains numerous entities such as sensors, processors, transmitters and actuators, meanwhile the interactions of which are complicated. These characteristics of IOT are consistent with those of the complex network. Motivated by this, this paper comprehends the security issue of IOT from the sight of the observability of complex network and regards the ability of reconstruction as a security threat to IOT network. We try to identify the minimum vertices whose data could reconstruct the whole data of network, in other words, we need to implement additional protective measures on these vertices to enhance the security of IOT network. By analyzing the topology of IOT network, an identification strategy is adopted and the corresponding algorithm is proposed to identify the minimum protection vertices.