Distributed and compressed MIKEY mode to secure end-to-end communications in the Internet of things.

Abdmeziem, Riad; Tandjaoui, Djamel; Romdhani, Imed

Abstract

Multimedia Internet KEYing protocol (MIKEY) aims at establishing secure credentials between two communicating entities. However, existing MIKEY modes fail to meet the requirements of low-power and low-processing devices. To address this issue, we combine two previously proposed approaches to introduce a new distributed and compressed MIKEY mode for the Internet of Things. Indeed, relying on a cooperative approach, a set of third parties is used to discharge the constrained nodes from heavy computational operations. Doing so, the preshared mode is used in the constrained part of network, while the public key mode is used in the unconstrained part of the network. Furthermore, to mitigate the communication cost we introduce a new header compression scheme that reduces the size of MIKEY’s header from 12 Bytes to 3 Bytes in the best compression case. Preliminary results show that our proposed mode is energy preserving whereas its security properties are preserved untouched.

Citation

Abdmeziem, R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2016). Distributed and compressed MIKEY mode to secure end-to-end communications in the Internet of things.

• Conference Name: 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services
• Start Date: Jun 27, 2016
• End Date: Jul 2, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 27, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2016
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Internet of things (IoT); E-health; MIKEY; keymanagement protocols; security
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10319