scholarly journals An Image Hashing-Based Authentication and Secure Group Communication Scheme for IoT-Enabled MANETs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Aiiad Albeshri
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Node Mobility ◽  
Image Hashing ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Neighboring Group ◽  
Authentication Mechanism

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) play a highly significant role in the Internet of Things (IoT) for managing node mobility. MANET opens the pathway for different IoT-based communication systems with effective abilities for a variety of applications in several domains. In IoT-based systems, it provides the self-formation and self-connection of networks. A key advantage of MANETs is that any device or node can freely join or leave the network; however, this makes the networks and applications vulnerable to security attacks. Thus, authentication plays an essential role in protecting the network or system from several security attacks. Consequently, secure communication is an important prerequisite for nodes in MANETs. The main problem is that the node moving from one group to another may be attacked on the way by misleading the device to join the neighboring group. To address this, in this paper, we present an authentication mechanism based on image hashing where the network administrator allows the crosschecking of the identity image of a soldier (i.e., a node) in the joining group. We propose the node joining and node migration algorithms where authentication is involved to ensure secure identification. The simulation tool NS-2 is employed to conduct extensive simulations for extracting the results from the trace files. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme based on the memory storage communication overhead and computational cost. In our scheme, the attack can be detected effectively and also provides a highly robust assurance.

scholarly journals Elliptic Curve Signcryption-Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Smart Cards

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 8291
Author(s):  
Anuj Kumar Singh ◽  
Arun Solanki ◽  
Anand Nayyar ◽  
Basit Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Smart Card ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
Smart Cards ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Computational Overhead

In the modern computing environment, smart cards are being used extensively, which are intended to authenticate a user with the system or server. Owing to the constrictions of computational resources, smart card-based systems require an effective design and efficient security scheme. In this paper, a smart card authentication protocol based on the concept of elliptic curve signcryption has been proposed and developed, which provides security attributes, including confidentiality of messages, non-repudiation, the integrity of messages, mutual authentication, anonymity, availability, and forward security. Moreover, the analysis of security functionalities shows that the protocol developed and explained in this paper is secure from password guessing attacks, user and server impersonation, replay attacks, de-synchronization attacks, insider attacks, known key attacks, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The results have demonstrated that the proposed smart card security protocol reduces the computational overhead on a smart card by 33.3% and the communication cost of a smart card by 34.5%, in comparison to the existing efficient protocols. It can, thus, be inferred from the results that using elliptic curve signcryption in the authentication mechanism reduces the computational cost and communication overhead by a significant amount.

scholarly journals Physical Unclonable Function and Hashing Are All You Need to Mutually Authenticate IoT Devices

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 4361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mostafa ◽  
Suk Jin Lee ◽  
Yesem Kurt Peker
Keyword(s):  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Complexity Cost

Internet of Things (IoT) has become the driving force in modern day technology with an increasing and rapid urge to create an intelligent, efficient, and connected world. IoT is used in manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, education, healthcare and many other business environments as well as home automation. Authentication for IoT devices is essential because many of these devices establish communication with servers through public networks. A rigorous lightweight device authentication scheme is needed to secure its physical hardware from cloning or side-channel attacks and accommodate the limited storage and computational power of IoT devices in an efficient manner. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight mutual two-factor authentication mechanism where an IoT device and the server authenticate each other. The proposed mechanism exploits Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and a hashing algorithm with the purpose of achieving a secure authentication and session key agreement between the IoT device and the server. We conduct a type of formal analysis to validate the protocol’s security. We also validate that the proposed authentication mechanism is secure against different types of attack scenarios and highly efficient in terms of memory storage, server capacity, and energy consumption with its low complexity cost and low communication overhead. In this sense, the proposed authentication mechanism is very appealing and suitable for resource-constrained and security-critical environments.

scholarly journals BBAAS: Blockchain-Based Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Providing Secure Communication in VANETs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Azees Maria ◽  
Vijayakumar Pandi ◽  
Jeatha Deborah Lazarus ◽  
Marimuthu Karuppiah ◽  
Mary Subaja Christo
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Authentication Code ◽  
Coverage Area ◽  
Anonymous Authentication ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Authentication Schemes

Smart driving has become conceivable due to the rapid growth of vehicular ad hoc networks. VANETs are considered as the main platform for providing safety road information and instant vehicle communication. Nevertheless, due to the open wireless nature of communication channels, VANET is susceptible to security attacks by malicious users. For this reason, secure anonymous authentication schemes are essential in VANETs. However, when vehicles reach a new roadside unit (RSU) coverage area, the vehicles need to perform reauthentication with the current RSU, which significantly diminishes the efficiency of the entire VANET. Therefore, the introduction of blockchain technology has created opportunities for VANETs to resolve the aforementioned challenges. Due to the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, rapid reauthentication of vehicles is achieved in this paper through secure authentication code transfer between the consecutive RSUs. The security strength of the proposed blockchain-based anonymous authentication scheme against various harmful security attacks is proven in the security analysis section to ensure that it provides better security. In addition, blockchain, as presented in the performance analysis section, is used to substantially diminish the computational cost compared to conventional authentication schemes.

scholarly journals Fast Encryption for Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks using Gaussian Transposition Cipher

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1988-1993
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Low Computational Cost

Wireless sensor network research enriched with diverse applications from industry to daily life. Widespread of sensor-based applications mandated for user authentication and secure communication. However, sensor nodes are limited energy and resources and hence secure communication for sensor nodes became a challenging task. This paper presents a fast encryption scheme for secure communication in wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme consists of three phases namely registration, network deployment, and data transmission. In this work, a Gaussian transposition cipher for the generation of strong key. This cipher uses Gaussian noise, modified rail fence cipher and transposition. Fast encryption has achieved using XOR-based encryption and hence the proposed scheme incurs low computational cost. The proposed scheme resistant to various security attacks.

An Efficient Cluster-Based Flooding Using Fuzzy Logic Scheme (CBF2S) In Mobile Adhoc Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mahima ◽  
N. Rajendran
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Link Quality ◽  
Traffic Load ◽  
Node Degree ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Delivery Ratio ◽  
Node Mobility ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Hop Count

: Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) hold a set of numerous mobile computing devices useful for communication with one another with no centralized control. Due to the inherent features of MANET such as dynamic topology, constrained on bandwidth, energy and computing resources, there is a need to design the routing protocols efficiently. Flooding is a directive for managing traffic since it makes use of only chosen nodes for transmitting data from one node to another. This paper intends to develop a new Cluster-Based Flooding using Fuzzy Logic Scheme (CBF2S). To construct clusters and choose proper cluster heads (CHs), thefuzzy logic approach is applied with the use of three parameters namely link quality, node mobility and node degree. The presented model considerably minimizes the number of retransmissions in the network. The presented model instructs the cluster members (CM) floods the packets inside a cluster called intra-cluster flooding and CHs floods the packets among the clusters called inter-cluster flooding. In addition, the gateway sends a packet to another gateway for minimizing unwanted data retransmissions when it comes under different CH. The presented CBF2S is simulated using NS2 tool under the presence of varying hop count. The CBF2S model exhibits maximum results over the other methods interms of overhead, communication overhead, traffic load, packet delivery ratio and the end to end delay.

Device Authentication and Data Encryption for IoT Network by Using Improved Lightweight SAFER Encryption With S-Boxes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Hamza Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Junaid Arshad ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Akram
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Encryption Method ◽  
Secure Authentication

To send data over the network, devices need to authenticate themselves within the network. After authentication, the device will be able to send the data in-network. After authentication, secure communication of devices is an important task that is done with an encryption method. IoT network devices have a very small circuit with low resources and low computation power. By considering low power, less memory, low computation, and all the aspect of IoT devices, an encryption technique is needed that is suitable for this type of device. As IoT networks are heterogeneous, each device has different hardware properties, and all the devices are not on one scale. To make IoT networks secure, this paper starts with the secure authentication mechanism to verify the device that wants to be a part of the network. After that, an encryption algorithm is presented that will make the communication secure. This encryption algorithm is designed by considering all the important aspects of IoT devices (low computation, low memory, and cost).

scholarly journals Multi-level authentication protocol for enabling secure communication in IoT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khushal Singh ◽  
Nanhay Singh
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Simulation Environment ◽  
Dos Attacks ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Hashing Function ◽  
Registration Phase

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is the domain of interest for the researchers at the present with the exponential growth in technology. Security in IoT is a prime factor, which highlights the need for authentication to tackle various attackers and hackers. Authentication is the process that uniquely identifies the incoming user and this paper develops an authentication protocol based on the chebyshev polynomial, hashing function, session password, and Encryption. The proposed authentication protocol is named as, proposed Elliptic, chebyshev, Session password, and Hash function (ECSH)-based multilevel authentication. For authenticating the incoming user, there are two phases, registration and authentication. In the registration phase, the user is registered with the server and Authentication center (AC), and the authentication follows, which is an eight-step criterion. The authentication is duly based on the scale factor of the user and server, session password, and verification messages. The authentication at the eight levels assures the security against various types of attacks and renders secure communication in IoT with minimal communication overhead and packet-loss. The performance of the method is analyzed using black-hole and Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks with 50 and 100 nodes in the simulation environment. The proposed ECSH-based multilevel authentication acquired the maximal detection rate, PDR, and QOS of 15.2%, 35.7895%, and 26.4623%, respectively in the presence of 50 nodes and DOS attacks, whereas the minimal delay of 135.922 ms is acquired in the presence of 100 nodes and DOS attacks.

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