Simple Authentication Scheme Research Articles

Secure and anonymous authentication scheme for the Internet of Things with pairing

The Internet of Things technology allows devices automatically connect with others or a server for the purposes of exchanging data. People can conveniently integrate data from those devices for a smart home, vehicular ad-hoc network, e-Health, etc. In 2017, Wang et al. proposed a simple authentication scheme for the Internet of Things. Although they formally proved that their scheme is secure, they did not consider the privacy of devices and stolen verifier attack. In this paper, we first demonstrate the weaknesses of Wang et al.’s scheme. Accordingly, we present a higher security level authentication scheme to resist the above weaknesses.

Cellular IoT for Mobile Autonomous Reporting in the Smart Grid

Wireless access technologies are being embedded in utility meters, health devices, public safety systems, among others. These devices have low processing power and communicate at low data rates. New communication standards are being developed to support these machine-type communications (MTC), such as Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT), which is being developed by the third generation partnership project (3GPP). CIoT introduces cooperative ultra-narrow band (C-UNB) communications. It supports ad-hoc uplink transmissions, delay-tolerant downlink transmissions, and a simple authentication scheme. The C-UNB approach is proposed for Mobile Autonomous Reporting (MAR) applications, but it is not clear if it can be used for smart grid systems, such as sensors and smart meters in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). In this paper, the authors review the C-UNB approach, study its performance in terms of collision rate and throughput, and discuss its potential for smart grid reporting applications.

Context-based Authentication Service for The Mobile Office

Today many companies introduce new mobile office environments evolved from the recent rapid development in mobile device technologies. Most of the recent mobile office systems use a simple authentication scheme such as ID/Password. This method is easy to use, but it does not consider the user's context. Thus it cannot provide appropriate security service required by the user's proper contexts. Therefore, this paper proposes a context based authentication system which applies security level verification and uses fuzzy algorithm based on the importance of access authority control.