A Lightweight Multicast Authentication Mechanism for Small Scale IoT Applications

Author

Xuanxia Yao ; Xiaoguang Han ; Xiaojiang Du ; Xianwei Zhou

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China

Volume

13

Issue

10

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 2013

Firstpage

3693

Lastpage

3701

Abstract

Security is very important for Internet of Things (IoTs). As a main communication mode, the security mechanism for multicast is not only the measure to ensure secured communications, but also the precondition for other security services. With the analysis of Nyberg´s fast one-way accumulator and its security, we discover that it has the property of absorbency in addition to the one-way and quasi-communicative property that makes it very suitable for applications in which accumulated items are dynamic. In this paper, we revise the original Nyberg´s fast one-way accumulator and construct a lightweight multicast authentication mechanism for small scale IoT applications. We analyze the security of the mechanism in detail. In addition, we evaluate seven performance aspects of the mechanism.

Keywords

Internet of Things; telecommunication security; Internet of Things; lightweight multicast authentication mechanism; quasicommunicative property; secured communication mode; security services; small scale IoT applications; IoT; absorbency; multicast authentication; one-way accumulator; quasi-commutative;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2013.2266116

Filename

6523079