TY - JOUR
T1 - A lightweight multicast authentication mechanism for small scale IoT applications
AU - Yao, Xuanxia
AU - Han, Xiaoguang
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Zhou, Xianwei
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - IoT
KW - absorbency
KW - multicast authentication
KW - one-way accumulator
KW - quasi-commutative
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U2 - 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2266116
DO - 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2266116
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84883421524
SN - 1530-437X
VL - 13
SP - 3693
EP - 3701
JO - IEEE Sensors Journal
JF - IEEE Sensors Journal
IS - 10
M1 - 6523079
ER -