Method for secure RESTful web service

Recently, majority of environmental monitoring systems use Internet of Things devices [1]. The Nevada Solar Energy-Water-Environment Nexus project collects a large amount of environmental data from various remote sensors. In the previous research, we introduced REST API for communication and web service between senor and server [2]. However, current RESTful web service has several issues for authentication system. We developed an ID-based authentication algorithm to achieve a secure RESTful web service. ID-based authentication is based on Boneh-Franklin ID-based encryption and REST URI. Such process enabled server to handle client´s request by acknowledging client´s URI rather than storing client´s entire status for stateless REST. Also, such process resolves current problems generated by implementing REST authentication.