Title
TAW: Cost-Effective Threshold Authentication With Weights for Internet of Things.
Abstract
In the Internet of Things, based on the collaboration of sensing nodes, sensing data are collected and transmitted. The collaboration of sensing nodes also plays an important role in the safeguard of the Internet of Things. Owing to the limited ability of the single sensing node, the threshold authentication based on the collaboration of sensing nodes can improve the trust of security authentication of sensing nodes. The current threshold authentication schemes may require high-computational complexity, and more importantly, most of them are instantiated by membership authentication. It's challenging to apply the current state of the arts to the case where sensing nodes with various weights join together to fulfill a relatively lightweight authentication. In this paper, we first design a communication key distribution scheme for sensing networks based on a symmetric operator. Using the permutation function, the scheme is able to generate characteristic sequences to improve the efficiency of key distribution in sensing networks. In addition, we propose a threshold authentication scheme based on weights, in which the higher weight represents the more important role in authentication. Our authentication scheme only requires lightweight operations, so that, it is extremely friendly to the IoT nodes with restricted computation power. The security analysis and the case verification demonstrate that our novel authentication protects IoT nodes without yielding significantly computational burden to the nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2902226
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things,symmetric operator,weighted threshold authentication,threshold equation
Key distribution,Authentication,Computer science,Permutation,Internet of Things,Computer network,Encryption,Security analysis,Operator (computer programming),Computation,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen-Hu Ning175.51
Guangquan Xu217133.20
Naixue Xiong32413194.61
Yongli Yang400.34
Changxiang Shen512714.57
Emmanouil A. Panaousis610114.94
Hao Wang721656.92
Kaitai Liang861245.13