An Effective and Innovative Framework with Authentication Schema and Key Generation in Internet of Things

Abstract

AbstractInternet of Things (IoT) plays vital role on heterogeneous wireless network communications especially on wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSN communication are generally concentrating low energy consuming and distributed based interconnected sensor nodes. Hence, in such network, access security is much more essential and the user authentication scheme is one of popular security topics in WSN. Previous authentication works usually focus on one user to one sensor accessing scenario. However, for future IoT applications, such as smart-home, there plenty of self-define sensor nodes in WSN architecture, where one user usually wants to control multiple sensor devices in a short time or at the same time. In such network phenomenon, we call it as multiple accesses scenario. Accordingly, this research work proposes an authentication and key agreement scheme which enables a remote user to efficiently complete multiple authentication processes at a time in the multiple access scenario. This proposed authentication scheme is suitable for the resource-constrained WSN architecture. Further, our scheme also considers the security flaws of two-factor authentication and designs a stronger security protection. In our security feature and performance evaluation, our proposed scheme achieves several security goals and, meanwhile, ensures the efficiency.KeywordsWSNIoTAuthenticationData securityKey-generationSensor nodesPassword protectionIdentification