Secure IoT framework and 2D architecture for End-To-End security

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed an secure IoT framework to ensure an End-To-End security from an IoT application to IoT devices. The proposed IoT framework consists of the IoT application, an IoT broker and the IoT devices. The IoT devices can be deployed along a board line or a boundary of the area of IoT broker. The IoT broker manages their own devices and aggregates their sensing data. The IoT application provides users with IoT services. To use the IoT services, it needs to access to sensing data. Especially, the case of real-time healthcare services should consider intermediate security issues because medical information of patients is one of very sensitive privacy information. However, most of IoT protocols such as CoAP and MQTT have no concern about the End-To-End security, they only depended on the security of DTLS. Therefore, we proposed a new IoT framework to satisfy the End-To-End security feature under the CoAP communication. The proposed framework encrypts sensitive data by a symmetric encryption and an attribute-based encryption for efficiencies of communication and computation costs. In addition, each IoT device has a unique identification used as one of their attributes. Consequently, although the IoT broker is one of the intermediate nodes, it decrypts and shows data only if it satisfies all attributes.