A Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol with Anonymity for IoT

Daojing He; Yanchang Cai; Shanshan Zhu; Ziming Zhao; Sammy Chan; Mohsen Guizani

doi:10.1109/TWC.2023.3257028

A Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol with Anonymity for IoT

Daojing He^*, Yanchang Cai, Shanshan Zhu, Ziming Zhao, Sammy Chan, Mohsen Guizani

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

The number of IoT devices is growing rapidly, and the interaction between devices and servers is also more frequent. However, IoT devices are often at the edge of the network, which leads their communications with the server to be completely exposed, making it more vulnerable to attacks. Moreover, IoT devices have limited energy and computational resources. Therefore, we propose in this paper a lightweight authentication and key exchange protocol with anonymity for IoT devices. The two-way authentication proposed scheme supports mutual authentication between IoT devices and the server. We verify the security of the protocol through formal and informal analyses. Finally, we compare security and performance with other protocols, which shows that our protocol has the advantages of being lightweight and secure. © 2023 IEEE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7862-7872
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	22
Issue number	11
Online published	24 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2023.3257028
Publication status	Published - Nov 2023

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This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2021YFB2700900; in part by the Shenzhen Key Technical Project under Grant 2022N009; in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U1936120; in part by the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation of China under Grant 171058; in part by the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies under Grant 2022B1212010005; and in part by the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, under Project CityU 11201421.

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authentication protocol
Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT device
lightweight

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