We propose highly efficient certificate-less (CL) protocols for the infrastructure used by authenticated key exchange (AKE). The construction is based on elliptic curves (EC) without pairing, which means it can be easily supported by most industrial...
Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITSs) are an important development for society. C-ITSs enhance road safety, improve traffic efficiency, and promote sustainable transportation through interconnected and intelligent communication between v...
Provable Data Possession (PDP) protocol makes it possible for cloud users to check whether the cloud servers possess their original data without downloading all the data. However, most of the existing PDP schemes are based on either public key infras...
The specificity and complexity of space networks render the traditional key management mechanism no longer applicable. The certificate-less-based distributed spatial network key management scheme proposed in this paper combines the characteristics of...
Certificateless signatures (CLS) are noticeable because they may resolve the key escrow problem in ID-based signatures and break away the management problem regarding certificate in conventional signatures. However, the security of the mostly previou...
As we get into the Internet of Things era, security and privacy concerns remain as the main obstacles in the development of innovative and valuable services to be exploited by society. Given the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) nature of these emerging scena...
In trans-border data (data transferred or accessed across national jurisdictions) exchange scenarios, identity authentication mechanisms serve as critical components for ensuring data security and privacy protection, with their effectiveness directly...
As a data-centric next-generation network architecture, Named Data Networking (NDN) exhibits inherent compatibility with the distributed nature of the Internet of Things (IoT) through its name-based routing mechanism. However, existing signature sche...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have become an essential part of the intelligent transportation system because they provide secure communication among vehicles, enhance vehicle safety, and improve the driving experience. However, due to the openne...
Data transmission in intelligent transportation systems is being challenged by a variety of factors, such as open wireless communication channels, that pose problems related to security, anonymity, and privacy. To achieve secure data transmission, se...
The current advances in cloud-based services have significantly enhanced individual satisfaction in numerous modern life areas. Particularly, the recent spectacular innovations in the wireless body area networks (WBAN) domain have made e-Care service...
The reporting of incidents of misconduct, violence, sexual assault, harassment, and other types of crime that constitute a major concern in modern society is of significant value when investigating such incidents. Unfortunately, people involved in su...
Transforming data into ciphertexts and storing them in the cloud database is a secure way to simplify data management. Public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) is an important cryptographic primitive as it provides the ability to search for t...
A ring signature (RS) scheme enables a group member to sign messages on behalf of its group without revealing the definite signer identify, but this also leads to the abuse of anonymity by malicious signers, which can be prevented by traceable ring s...
As an extension of the wired network, the use of the wireless communication network has considerably boosted users’ productivity at work and in their daily lives. The most notable aspect of the wireless communication network is that it overcome...
A Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), introduced into the healthcare sector to improve patient care and enhance the efficiency of medical services, also brings the risk of the leakage of patients’ privacy. Therefore, maintaining the communicatio...
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, automotive companies are integrating federated learning into connected vehicles to provide users with smarter services. Federated learning enables vehicl...
With the rapid development of quantum computers and quantum computing, Internet of Things (IoT) networks equipped with traditional cryptographic algorithms have become very weak against quantum attacks. This paper focuses on the privacy-preserving pr...
Vehicular Ad hoc networks (VANETs) as spontaneous wireless communication technology of vehicles has a wide range of applications like road safety, navigation and other electric car technologies, however its practicability is greatly hampered by cyber...
Vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a promising network scenario for greatly improving traffic efficiency and safety, in which smart vehicles can communicate with other vehicles or roadside units. For the availability of VANETs, it is very important...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) overcomes the physical limitations of traditional ground networks with its dynamic topology and 3D spatial flexibility, playing a crucial role in various fields. However, eavesdropping and spoofing attacks in open channel...
Nowadays, the widely deployed and high performance Internet of Things (IoT) facilitates the communication between its terminal nodes. To enhance data sharing among terminal devices and ensure the recipients’ privacy protection, a few anonymous...
Thanks to the widespread availability of Fifth Generation (5G) wireless connectivity, it is now possible to provide preventative or proactive healthcare services from any location and at any time. As a result of this technological improvement, Wirele...
Due to the open underwater channels and untransparent network deployment environments, underwater acoustic networks (UANs) are more vulnerable to hostile environments. Security research is also being conducted in cryptography, including authenticatio...
Lattice and code cryptography can replace existing schemes such as elliptic curve cryptography because of their resistance to quantum computers. In support of public key infrastructures, the distribution, validation and storage of the cryptographic k...
The integration of federated learning into Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks enables collaborative intelligence but also exposes systems to identity spoofing, model poisoning, and malicious update injection. This paper presents Leash-FL,...
Thanks to recent advancements in biomedical sensors, wireless networking technologies, and information networks, traditional healthcare methods are evolving into a new healthcare infrastructure known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). It enabl...
Power Internet of Things (IoT) is the application of IoT technology in the field of power grid, which can better control all kinds of power equipment, power personnel and operating environment. However, access to mass terminals brings higher requirem...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), which are the backbone of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), facilitate critical data exchanges between vehicles. This necessitates secure transmission, which requires guarantees of message availability, in...
The Internet of Things (IoT) environment consists of numerous devices. In general, IoT devices communicate with each other to exchange data, or connect to the Internet through a gateway to provide IoT services. Most IoT devices participating in the I...
This paper presents a certificateless group signature scheme designed specifically for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications in resource-constrained environments. The scheme leverages Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and elliptic curve cry...
As electric vehicles (EVs) gain popularity, the existing public charging infrastructure is struggling to keep pace with the rapidly growing demand for the immediate charging needs of EVs. V2V power trading has gradually attracted widespread attention...
In the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, more types of devices than ever before are connected to the internet to provide IoT services. Smart devices are becoming more intelligent and improving performance, but there are devices with little comput...
With the surge in cloud storage popularity, more individuals are choosing to store large amounts of data on remote cloud service providers (CSPs) to save local storage resources. However, users’ primary worries revolve around maintaining data i...
Security and privacy issues were long a subject of concern with drones from the past few years. This is due to the lack of security and privacy considerations in the design of the drone, which includes unsecured wireless channels and insufficient com...
Vehicular sensor networks have been widely applied in intelligent traffic systems in recent years. Because of the specificity of vehicular sensor networks, they require an enhanced, secure and efficient authentication scheme. Existing authentication...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) improves traffic efficiency and enhances driving safety through the real-time collection and analysis of traffic-related data. Numerous secure and privacy-preserving communication protocols have been proposed for the Io...
With the rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles, the increase in vehicle functional requirements has led to the continuous increase in complex electronic systems, and the in-vehicle network is extremely vulnerable to network attacks. The contr...