An ECC based Lightweight Authentication Protocol For Mobile Phone in Smart Home

Abstract

The Internet of Things (loT) is advantageous in many areas such as people, society, and industries as it interconnects a different kind of devices and information entities hence it originates a huge number of value-added services. Typically, IoT environments are comprised of many diversified devices but with limited resource. To establish an end-to-end authentication between the applications and monitoring devices in a smart environment is a tough task. Because of multifariousness in respect of topology, devices, different security and communication used in IoT, the authentication mechanisms which are existing in the current period are ill-protected to security threats and can be a disruption in the progress of IoT in realizing Smart Environment. Hence, the symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems have to be convergent and to guarantee the complete security of IoT environment a lightweight cryptographic protocol is necessary. In this paper, we present a lightweight authentication scheme based on ECC which offers adequate security measures and also performance is up to the mark.