Visible to the public Fog-Based Secure Communications for Low-Power IoT Devices

TitleFog-Based Secure Communications for Low-Power IoT Devices
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsFerretti, Luca, Marchetti, Mirco, Colajanni, Michele
JournalACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Volume19
Pagination27:1-27:21
ISSN1533-5399
KeywordsAuthorization, confidentiality, Encryption, Fog Computing, Internet-of-Things, Proxy re-encryption, pubcrawl, Publish/Subscribe, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, secure communications, security
AbstractDesigning secure, scalable, and resilient IoT networks is a challenging task because of resource-constrained devices and no guarantees of reliable network connectivity. Fog computing improves the resiliency of IoT, but its security model assumes that fog nodes are fully trusted. We relax this latter constraint by proposing a solution that guarantees confidentiality of messages exchanged through semi-honest fog nodes thanks to a lightweight proxy re-encryption scheme. We demonstrate the feasibility of the solution by applying it to IoT networks of low-power devices through experiments on microcontrollers and ARM-based architectures.
DOI10.1145/3284554
Citation Keyferretti_fog-based_2019