Authentication Devices in Fog-Mobile Edge Computing Environments Through a Wireless Grid Resource Sharing Protocol

TL;DR

This paper proposes wg-IoT, a new authentication methodology integrating fog, wireless grids, and mobile edge computing to enhance security for IoT devices in 5G-enabled fog-cloud environments.

Contribution

It introduces a generic authentication framework, wg-IoT, utilizing resource sharing protocols for secure IoT device authentication in fog and mobile edge computing networks.

Findings

Developed a wireless grid-based authentication process for IoT devices.

Embedded core components manage ID, permissions, data transfer, API, and security.

Proposed methodology enhances security in IoT fog-mobile edge architectures.

Abstract

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Fog computing, mobile edge computing and wireless grids has resulted in the widespread deployment of relatively immature technology. These technologies, which will primarily use 5G wireless communication networks, are becoming popular because they can be deployed quickly with little infrastructure and lends themselves to environments utilizing numerous internet connected devices (ICD). Because of the threat of exploitation, these networks have to be protected by a robust security architecture due to these technologies being plagued with security problems. The authentication of smart ICDs to IoT networks is a critical mechanism for achieving security on these new information system platforms. This article identifies an authentication process required for these ICDs, which will need to prove their identity to authenticate to an IoT fog-mobile edge computing (FMEC) cloud network through a wireless grid authentication process. The purpose of this article is to hypothesize a generic authentication methodology for these FMEC clouds uses in an IoT architecture. The proposed methodology, called wg-IoT, must include the integration of Fog computing, wireless grids and mobile edge computing clouds to create this new IoT architecture. An authentication process developed from the resource sharing protocol (RSP) from a wireless grid is first developed and proposed for the authentication of ICDs. The wireless grid core components must be embedded in IoT devices or sensors depending on their capability to handle five primary functions: management of identification [ID] and presence, permissions management, data transferability, application-programming interface [API] and security.