An enhanced mutual authentication and security protocol for IoT and cloud server

ABSTRACT

Rapid growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies increases the uses of several embedded devices. But for the communication and information sharing between these devices, an integration of these devices with the cloud which is having large pool of resources is required. This integration of technology is expected to provide an extraordinary development in the applications of IoT. However, security is the major issue of concern at the time ofexchanging the information’s between these devices. To overcome the security issues, many secure authentication protocols have been proposed. Still, there are some shortcomings required to address. Motivated by the existing research work, an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) based enhanced secure mutual authentication protocol for IoT and cloud server has been proposed. Here, Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) tool has been used for formal verification of the proposed protocol. Moreover, the informal security analysis has been performed with respect to several security attributes and compared with existing protocols. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed protocol has been performed in terms of several performance parameters such as communication, computational, and storage overhead. The security and performance analyses show that the proposed protocol outperforms the existing protocols.

KEYWORDS:

• Authentication
• elliptic Curve Cryptography
• internet of Things
• security
• smart Device

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Prabhat Kumar Panda

Prabhat Kumar Panda received his B. Tech degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2007 from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology, Odisha-769015, India, and M.E in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata –700 032, India in 2013. Mr. Panda received his  PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700 032, India in 2020. He worked as Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Roland Institute of Technology, Odisha–761008, India, from 2008-2019. He is now working as an Assistant Professor in the school of Electronics and Communication Engineering, REVA University, Bangalore-560064, India, since 2019. He has published a number of papers in International Journals and International Conferences of repute. His current research interests include Wireless Network Security, IoT Security, Cryptography and Wireless Sensor Network

Sudipta Chattopadhyay

Sudipta Chattopadhyay received her B. Tech degree in Instrumentation Engineering in 1994 from the University College of Technology, Calcutta University, Kolkata- 700 009, India, and M.E. Tel. E and PhD degrees from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, India in the year 2001 and 2012 respectively. She served as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Institute of Technical Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India, from 1996-2001 and also worked as Lecturer, Sr. Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Netaji Subash Engineering College, Kolkata – 700 152, India, from 2001-2006. She worked as Sr. Lecturer (re-designated as Assistant Professor stage-II) from 2006 to 2011, Assistant Professor stage-III from 2011-2014 and Associate Professor from 2014-2017 in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032 respectively. She is now working as Professor in the same institution since 2017. She has published more than 75 papers in International Conferences and International Journals of repute. Her current research interests include Digital/Mobile Communication, Error Correcting Coding Techniques, Digital Signal Processing, Security and Cryptography, RF Energy Harvesting and Evolutionary Algorithms. Prof. Chattopadhyay is a senior member of IEEE. She has a long association of 17 years with IEEE. She is also holding the position of Chairperson of the Affinity Group “Women in Engineering” (WIE), under Kolkata Section since 2017. She is also the Executive Committee member of “Communication Society” under IEEE Calcutta Section