The Meeting of Acquaintances: A Cost-efficient Authentication Scheme for Light-weight Objects with Transient Trust Level and Plurality Approach
Tran Khanh Dang, Khanh T.K. Tran

TL;DR
This paper proposes a lightweight, cost-efficient authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks that reduces reliance on central authorities, enhances security for transient devices, and optimizes communication costs in resource-constrained IoT environments.
Contribution
It introduces a novel authentication mechanism that eliminates the need for a nearby central authority, utilizing past interactions for key management and adjustable thresholds for flexible security.
Findings
Communication cost reduced by less than 2000 bits compared to previous schemes
Enhanced flexibility in authenticating unknown devices
Lower energy consumption and resource usage in simulations
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks consist of a large number of distributed sensor nodes so that potential risks are becoming more and more unpredictable. The new entrants pose the potential risks when they move into the secure zone. To build a door wall that provides safe and secured for the system, many recent research works applied the initial authentication process. However, the majority of the previous articles only focused on the Central Authority (CA) since this leads to an increase in the computation cost and energy consumption for the specific cases on the Internet of Things (IoT). Hence, in this article, we will lessen the importance of these third parties through proposing an enhanced authentication mechanism that includes key management and evaluation based on the past interactions to assist the objects joining a secured area without any nearby CA. We refer to a mobility dataset from…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSecurity in Wireless Sensor Networks · User Authentication and Security Systems · Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
