Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro
With the deepening of the research and development in the field of embedded devices, the paradigm of the Internet of things (IoT) is gaining momentum. Its technology’s widespread applications increasing the number of connected devices constantly. IoT is built on sensor networks, which are enabling a...
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| author | Hussein, Safwan Mawlood López Ramos, Juan Antonio Álvarez Bermejo, José Antonio |
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| description | With the deepening of the research and development in the field of embedded devices, the paradigm of the Internet of things (IoT) is gaining momentum. Its technology’s widespread applications increasing the number of connected devices constantly. IoT is built on sensor networks, which are enabling a new variety of solutions for applications in several fields (health, industry, defense, agrifood and agro sectors, etc.). Wireless communications are indispensable for taking full advantage of sensor networks but implies new requirements in the security and privacy of communications. Security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a major challenge for extending IoT applications, in particular those related to the smart-agro. Moreover, limitations on processing capabilities of sensor nodes, and power consumption have made the encryption techniques devised for conventional networks not feasible. In such scenario, symmetric-key ciphers are preferred for key management in WSN; key distribution is therefore an issue. In this work, we provide a concrete implementation of a novel scalable group distributed key management method and a protocol for securing communications in IoT systems used in the smart agro sector, based on elliptic curve cryptography, to ensure that information exchange between layers of the IoT framework is not affected by sensor faults or intentional attacks. In this sense, each sensor node executes an initial key agreement, which is done through every member’s public information in just two rounds and uses some authenticating information that avoids external intrusions. Further rekeying operations require just a single message and provide backward and forward security. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-81192023-04-12T19:26:28Z Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro Hussein, Safwan Mawlood López Ramos, Juan Antonio Álvarez Bermejo, José Antonio elliptic curves Diffie–Hellman discrete logarithm problem security protocol secure key exchange wireless sensor networks sensor networks security IoT networks IoT security smart-agro With the deepening of the research and development in the field of embedded devices, the paradigm of the Internet of things (IoT) is gaining momentum. Its technology’s widespread applications increasing the number of connected devices constantly. IoT is built on sensor networks, which are enabling a new variety of solutions for applications in several fields (health, industry, defense, agrifood and agro sectors, etc.). Wireless communications are indispensable for taking full advantage of sensor networks but implies new requirements in the security and privacy of communications. Security in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a major challenge for extending IoT applications, in particular those related to the smart-agro. Moreover, limitations on processing capabilities of sensor nodes, and power consumption have made the encryption techniques devised for conventional networks not feasible. In such scenario, symmetric-key ciphers are preferred for key management in WSN; key distribution is therefore an issue. In this work, we provide a concrete implementation of a novel scalable group distributed key management method and a protocol for securing communications in IoT systems used in the smart agro sector, based on elliptic curve cryptography, to ensure that information exchange between layers of the IoT framework is not affected by sensor faults or intentional attacks. In this sense, each sensor node executes an initial key agreement, which is done through every member’s public information in just two rounds and uses some authenticating information that avoids external intrusions. Further rekeying operations require just a single message and provide backward and forward security. 2020-04-28T09:29:20Z 2020-04-28T09:29:20Z 2020-04-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1424-8220 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8119 en https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/8/2242 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | elliptic curves Diffie–Hellman discrete logarithm problem security protocol secure key exchange wireless sensor networks sensor networks security IoT networks IoT security smart-agro Hussein, Safwan Mawlood López Ramos, Juan Antonio Álvarez Bermejo, José Antonio Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title | Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title_full | Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title_fullStr | Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title_short | Distributed Key Management to Secure IoT Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart-Agro |
| title_sort | distributed key management to secure iot wireless sensor networks in smart-agro |
| topic | elliptic curves Diffie–Hellman discrete logarithm problem security protocol secure key exchange wireless sensor networks sensor networks security IoT networks IoT security smart-agro |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8119 |
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