A secure Device-to-Device communication scheme for massive Machine Type Communication

Abstract

Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) services aims to provide universal connectivity to thousands of low-power, low-cost devices with the support of 5G cellular networks. Device to Device (D2D) communication under 5G cellular network envisages interaction among heterogeneous and previously un-associated devices with diverse requirements, thereby exposing them to a multitude of vulnerabilities. The absence of pre-configured trust or security associations provide an opportunity for various active and passive attacks. Further, in a grouped D2D communication scenario, a group of devices may want to communicate in a secure way with the network and among themselves via a relay device using D2D communication links. D2D communication can prove to be an effective solution to support mMTC services. In this paper we present an Efficient and Secure Integrated Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement (ESIM-AKA) scheme for Grouped D2D communication for use in mMTC services. The scheme aims to achieve access authentication between individual devices in a group and the core network, and also between the individual devices in the group and a designated group relay device. Our scheme uses the Chebyshev’s Chaotic Map as the cryptographic primitive along with Chinese Remainder Theorem to achieve lightweight and efficient authentication and key agreement. Unlike other schemes available in literature, our proposed scheme integrates the access authentication with the D2D authentication thereby improving the communication and signalling load considerably. The scheme also incorporates a group key management scheme for securing multicast and intra-group communication among the group members, where the group membership can also be dynamic.