Security Protocols for Embedded Wireless Devices

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".

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Interests: security of wireless networks; protocol design; applied cryptography; security of embedded systems; cyber-physical systems

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Dear Colleagues,

The majority of computers on the planet are now embedded systems of some kind. Many of these are subject to various restrictions, e.g., computation, power consumption, connectivity, memory, transmission strength, etc. In addition, they often have to cope with less than ideal environments. They might have to communicate wirelessly in a noisy environment, or they might be operated by users who do not know or care about their limitations, and just want the functionality these devices can provide.

These factors mean that such devices need to provide a different set of security guarentees than is often required in more traditional networks. Such devices need to cope with a large array of attacks, ranging from wireless jamming and denial of service, to protocol attacks that can leverage the reduced device recources and unique limitations.

This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss aspects of security protocols for embedded wireless devices, explore new theories, investigate already deploid algorithms, protocols and schemes and innovate new solutions for overcoming the huge challenges in this important research area.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of network and security protocols
  • Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
  • Forensics and diagnostics for security
  • Automated security analysis of hardware designs and implementation
  • Automated security analysis of source code and binaries
  • Protocols for P2P systems
  • Network infrastructure security
  • Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
  • Wireless security
  • Mobile systems security
  • Distributed systems security
  • Embedded systems security
  • Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware
  • Side channels
  • Analysis of deployed cryptography and cryptographic protocols
  • Cryptographic implementation analysis
  • New cryptographic protocols with real-world applications

Prof. Dr. Kasper Rasmussen
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Wireless Security
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Distributed systems
  • Counterfeit hardware
  • Mobile systems
  • Denial-of-service
  • Automated security analysis
  • Network and security protocols
  • Embedded systems
  • Side channels

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SENTINEL: A Secure and Efficient Authentication Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
by Geumhwan Cho, Junsung Cho, Sangwon Hyun and Hyoungshick Kim
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(9), 3149; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093149 - 30 Apr 2020
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Extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly referred to as a “drone”) has posed security and safety challenges. To mitigate security threats caused by flights of unauthorized drones, we present a framework called SENTINEL (Secure and Efficient autheNTIcation [...] Read more.
Extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly referred to as a “drone”) has posed security and safety challenges. To mitigate security threats caused by flights of unauthorized drones, we present a framework called SENTINEL (Secure and Efficient autheNTIcation for uNmanned aErial vehicLes) under the Internet of Drones (IoD) infrastructure. SENTINEL is specifically designed to minimize the computational and traffic overheads caused by certificate exchanges and asymmetric cryptography computations that are typically required for authentication protocols. SENTINEL initially generates a flight session key for a drone having a flight plan and registers the flight session key and its flight plan into a centralized database that can be accessed by ground stations. The registered flight session key is then used as the message authentication code key to authenticate the drone by any ground station while the drone is flying. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme, we implemented a prototype of SENTINEL with ECDSA, PBKDF2 and HMAC-SHA256. The experiment results demonstrated that the average execution time of the authentication protocol in SENTINEL was about 3.1 times faster than the “TLS for IoT” protocol. We also formally proved the security of SENTINEL using ProVerif that is an automatic cryptographic protocol verifier. Full article
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Secure Transmission in Cognitive Wiretap Networks with Full-Duplex Receivers
by Zhihui Shang, Tao Zhang, Yueming Cai, Weiwei Yang, Hao Wu, Yu Zhang and Liwei Tao
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(5), 1840; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10051840 - 7 Mar 2020
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This paper studies the secure transmission in the dual-hop cognitive wiretap networks, where the secondary transmitter (Alice) aims to transmit confidential information to the secondary receiver (Bob) in the face of a multi-antenna relay (Relay), while the malicious eavesdropper (Eve) is used to [...] Read more.
This paper studies the secure transmission in the dual-hop cognitive wiretap networks, where the secondary transmitter (Alice) aims to transmit confidential information to the secondary receiver (Bob) in the face of a multi-antenna relay (Relay), while the malicious eavesdropper (Eve) is used to eavesdrop the confidential information from Alice and Relay. To improve security, we design two transmission schemes, namely maximal-ratio combining/maximal-ratio transmission-selection combining (MRC/MRT-SC) with half-duplex (HD) receiver and maximal-ratio combining-zero forcing beamforming/maximal-ratio transmission-selection combining-zero forcing beamforming (MRC-ZFB/MRT-SC-ZFB) with full-duplex (FD) receiver. To evaluate the secrecy performance obtained from the proposed schemes comprehensively, the new closed-form and simple asymptotic expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) and secrecy throughput (ST) of our considered networks with MRC-ZFB/MRT-SC-ZFB and MRC/MRT-SC schemes are derived, respectively. Thus, we explore the effect of various schemes on system secrecy performance in terms of SOP and ST. Analytical results and numerical simulations demonstrate that MRC-ZFB/MRT-SC-ZFB achieves better performance in the two proposed schemes. In particular, we show that the FD receiver plays a crucial role in designing the cognitive wiretap networks for protecting the legitimate link against attack from the malicious eavesdropping. Full article
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