Matrix-based key management scheme for IoT networks

Abstract

The key management is the central element of network security. In fact, key distribution is necessary for securing applications in the context of Internet of Things (IoT). However, existing key management protocols are not directly applicable on IoT due, among other things, to severe and high resource constraints of some devices that make up the IoT network. Therefore, it is necessary that the proposed key management protocols takes in charge these features and constraints. Most existing solutions didn’t focus on optimizing, at the same time, all performance criteria, like communication, computation and storage. Some of them put special emphasis on minimizing one criteria but ignore the others. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight matrix based key management protocol for Iot network, which is not only flexible, scalable and resilient to many types of attacks, but also can reduce the communication, computation and storage overheads at constrained nodes side. The security properties like authentication, integrity and secrecy have been checked by using the formal verification tool AVISPA. Moreover, security and performance analysis show that our scheme protects user’s sensitive data from several types of attacks by achieving secure end-to-end communications, and optimizes the energy consumption, which is suitable for resource-limited networks.