Securing the Transmission While Enhancing the Reliability of Communication Using Network Coding in Block-Wise Transfer of CoAP

Abstract

The practical employment of network coding (NC) has shown major improvements when it comes to the transmission reliability of sender data and bandwidth utilization. Moreover, network coding has been employed recently to secure the transmission of data and prevent unauthorized recovery of sender packets. In this paper, we employ network coding (NC) in a practical way in networks with constrained resources with the goal of improving the reliability and security of data transfer. More specifically, we apply NC on the recent options of block-wise transfer (BWT) of the constrained application protocol (CoAP). The goal is to enhance the reliability of CoAP when used to transfer larger data blocks using BWT. Also, we employ an innovative homomorphic encryption approach to secure the BWT of CoAP.