An Efficient and Secure Mechanism for Ubiquitous Sustainable Computing System

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are frequently utilized to collect information around humans’ daily routine, producing a need for them to regularly pair with each other. With the increasing interest in digitizing human’s natural environment and evolution of advanced application scenarios, the wireless communication networks have turned into a key player for IoT devices. As IoT devices are resource-constrained and transmit the perceived information regularly to its corresponding participant, it is mandatory for the devices to adopt a lightweight authentication scheme to overcome their limited energy availability and avoid security and privacy issues in ubiquitous sustainable computing system. Researchers have proposed protocols for IoT devices in wireless communication networks, many of which neglect numerous serious security weaknesses such as loss of identity preservation, vulnerability to replay, Man-in-the-Middle, eavesdropping attacks, and loss of key secrecy. Additionally, various security and efficiency threats in the proximity-based device authentication scheme, such as device cloning and identity loss, have a large signaling overhead. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of the proposed schemes in terms of computation, communication and storage overhead. The results illustrate the implementation advantages and suitability of the proposed schemes for low-powered devices compared to existing protocols.