scholarly journals Medium Access Control Protocols for the Internet of Things Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Comparative Survey

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5586
Author(s):  
Shreya Khisa ◽  
Sangman Moh
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT), which consists of a large number of small low-cost devices, has become a leading solution for smart cities, smart agriculture, smart buildings, smart grids, e-healthcare, etc. Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with IoT can result in an airborne UAV-based IoT (UIoT) system and facilitate various value-added services from sky to ground. In addition to wireless sensors, various kinds of IoT devices are connected in UIoT, making the network more heterogeneous. In a UIoT system, for achieving high throughput in an energy-efficient manner, it is crucial to design an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol because the MAC layer is responsible for coordinating access among the IoT devices in the shared wireless medium. Thus, various MAC protocols with different objectives have been reported for UIoT. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no survey had been performed so far that dedicatedly covers MAC protocols for UIoT. Hence, in this study, state-of-the-art MAC protocols for UIoT are investigated. First, the communication architecture and important design considerations of MAC protocols for UIoT are examined. Subsequently, different MAC protocols for UIoT are classified, reviewed, and discussed with regard to the main ideas, innovative features, advantages, limitations, application domains, and potential future improvements. The reviewed MAC protocols are qualitatively compared with regard to various operational characteristics and system parameters. Additionally, important open research issues and challenges with recommended solutions are summarized and discussed.

scholarly journals Efficient Deployment of Small Cell Base Stations Mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the Internet of Things Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 7460-7471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Sobouti ◽  
Zahra Rahimi ◽  
Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh ◽  
Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno ◽  
Reza Ghanbari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Cell Base

Information Flow Control Based on the CapBAC (Capability-Based Access Control) Model in the IoT

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigenari Nakamura ◽  
Tomoya Enokido ◽  
Makoto Takizawa
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Control Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Flow Control ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Access Rights ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the Internet of Things (IoT), not only computers like servers but also devices with sensor and actuator devices are interconnected. It is critical to make the IoT secure, especially devices. In the capability-based access control (CapBAC) model proposed to make IoT devices secure, an owner of each device issues a capability token, i.e. a set of access rights, to a subject. Only a subject holding the capability token is allowed to manipulate the device. However, a subject may get data in a device d1 via another device d2 although the subject holds no capability token to get data from the device d1. Here, the data in the device d1 illegally flow to the subject. In this article, the authors propose the operation interruption (OI) protocol where illegal get operations are interrupted. In the evaluation, the ratio of the number of get operations interrupted to the total number of get operations is kept constant even if the numbers of subjects and access rights granted to each subject increase in the OI protocol.

scholarly journals Identity Authentication and Capability Based Access Control (IACAC) for the Internet of Things

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parikshit N. Mahalle ◽  
Bayu Anggorojati ◽  
Neeli R. Prasad ◽  
Ramjee Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Identity Authentication ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Dos Attacks ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the last few years the Internet of Things (IoT) has seen widespreadapplication and can be found in each field. Authentication and accesscontrol are important and critical functionalities in the context of IoTto enable secure communication between devices. Mobility, dynamicnetwork topology and weak physical security of low power devices in IoTnetworks are possible sources for security vulnerabilities. It ispromising to make an authentication and access control attack resistant andlightweight in a resource constrained and distributed IoT environment.This paper presents the Identity Authentication and Capability basedAccess Control (IACAC) model with protocol evaluation and performanceanalysis. To protect IoT from man-in-the-middle, replay and denial ofservice (Dos) attacks, the concept of capability for access control isintroduced. The novelty of this model is that, it presents an integratedapproach of authentication and access control for IoT devices. Theresults of other related study have also been analyzed to validate andsupport our findings. Finally, the proposed protocol is evaluated byusing security protocol verification tool and verification results showsthat IACAC is secure against aforementioned attacks. This paper alsodiscusses performance analysis of the protocol in terms of computationaltime compared to other existing solutions. Furthermore, this paper addresseschallenges in IoT and security attacks are modelled with the use casesto give an actual view of IoT networks.

Centralized, Distributed, and Everything in between

2022 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Sophie Dramé-Maigné ◽  
Maryline Laurent ◽  
Laurent Castillo ◽  
Hervé Ganem
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Security Properties ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Security Of Iot

The Internet of Things is taking hold in our everyday life. Regrettably, the security of IoT devices is often being overlooked. Among the vast array of security issues plaguing the emerging IoT, we decide to focus on access control, as privacy, trust, and other security properties cannot be achieved without controlled access. This article classifies IoT access control solutions from the literature according to their architecture (e.g., centralized, hierarchical, federated, distributed) and examines the suitability of each one for access control purposes. Our analysis concludes that important properties such as auditability and revocation are missing from many proposals while hierarchical and federated architectures are neglected by the community. Finally, we provide an architecture-based taxonomy and future research directions: a focus on hybrid architectures, usability, flexibility, privacy, and revocation schemes in serverless authorization.

scholarly journals A survey on approaches to the protection of personal data gathered by IoT devices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Tranter
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Is Security ◽  
The World ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Security is always at the forefront of developing technologies. One can seldom go a week without hearing of a new data breach or hacking attempt from various groups around the world, often taking advantage of a simple flaw in a system’s architecture. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these developing technologies which may be at risk of such attacks. IoT devices are becoming more and more prevalent in everyday life. From keeping track of an individual’s health, to suggesting meals from items available in an individual’s fridge, these technologies are taking a much larger role in the personal lives of their users. With this in mind, how is security being considered in the development of these technologies? Are these devices that monitor individual’s personal lives just additional vectors for potential data theft? Throughout this survey, various approaches to the development of security systems concerning IoT devices in the home will be discussed, compared, and contrasted in the hope of providing an ideal solution to the problems this technology may produce.

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