Lightweight Security for IoT

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Saurabh, ^a | Sharma, Chirag^a | Khan, Shakir^{b; c} | Mahajan, Shubham^{c; d; e} | Alsagri, Hatoon S.^b | Almjally, Abrar^b | Alabduallah, Bayan Ibrahimm^{f; *} | Ansari, Asrar Ahmad^g

Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India | [b] College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | [c] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Centre for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Mohali, India | [d] Ajeenkya D Y Patil University, Pune, Maharashtra, (iNurture Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore), Pune, Maharashtra, India | [e] MEU Research Unit, Middle East University, Amman, Jordan | [f] Department of Information System, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | [g] Researcher/E-Learning Consultant Medical Education Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Bayan Ibrahimm Alabduallah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Bayan Ibrahimm Alabduallah, Department of Information System, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: bialabdullah@pnu.edu.sa.

Abstract: With the ever-increasing demand for IoT Devices which enable all objects to connect and exchange information in applications such as healthcare applications, Industry 4.0, smart cities and smart homes, etc. IoT devices play a crucial role in our day-to-day life like homes, offices, healthcare, wearable, and agriculture. With the development of IoT devices, securing device-to-device communication has attracted more and more attention and we need to ensure the privacy and security of data amongst these IoT devices. User authentication has emerged as a major security concern while connecting IoT devices and the cloud. Many authentication schemes like mutual authentication, group authentication have been proposed to ensure only authenticated users and with very high confidence we can rely on the decision-making process. Symmetric key based as well as Asymmetric key-based solutions have been proposed but due to the resource constraint nature of the IoT devices designing lightweight, robust, provably secure authentication schemes is a big challenge. This paper discusses the various authentication techniques designed for low-powered IoT devices and proposes a lightweight authentication scheme for IoT.

Keywords: IoT, authentication, lightweight, Industry 4.0, and security

DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-232388

Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 5423-5439, 2023