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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Integrated Authentication Server Design for Efficient Kerberos–Blockchain VANET Authentication

  • Maya Rahayu,
  • Md. Biplob Hossain,
  • Samsul Huda and
  • Yasuyuki Nogami

30 October 2025

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a fundamental component of the intelligent transportation systems (ITS), providing critical road information to users. However, the volatility of VANETs creates significant vulnerabilities from malicious actors. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,513 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2023

Recently, Roy et al. proposed a physically unclonable function (PUF)-based authentication and key exchange protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The PUF protocol is efficient, because it integrates both the Node-to-Node (N2N) authentication...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity and Reliability for 5G and Beyond and IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,149 Views
23 Pages

Efficient IoT User Authentication Protocol with Semi-Trusted Servers

  • Shunfang Hu,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Yanru Guo,
  • Wang Zhong and ,
  • Yanru Chen and
  • Liangyin Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2025

Internet of Things (IoT) user authentication protocols enable secure authentication and session key negotiation between users and IoT devices via an intermediate server, allowing users to access sensor data or control devices remotely. However, the e...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,824 Views
26 Pages

Public Authentic-Replica Sampling Mechanism in Distributed Storage Environments

  • Jiale Ye,
  • Yongmei Bai,
  • Jiang Xu,
  • Shitao Huang and ,
  • Zhaoyang Han and
  • Wei Wan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2024

With the rapid development of wireless communication and big data analysis technologies, the storage of massive amounts of data relies on third-party trusted storage, such as cloud storage. However, once data are stored on third-party servers, data o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,019 Views
32 Pages

SELAMAT: A New Secure and Lightweight Multi-Factor Authentication Scheme for Cross-Platform Industrial IoT Systems

  • Haqi Khalid,
  • Shaiful Jahari Hashim,
  • Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad,
  • Fazirulhisyam Hashim and
  • Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary

18 February 2021

The development of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promotes the integration of the cross-platform systems in fog computing, which enable users to obtain access to multiple application located in different geographical locations. Fog users at...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Securing the Industrial Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,641 Views
13 Pages

22 February 2022

Background: Information and communication technology development provides services to various fields. In particular, the development of mobile technology has made ubiquitous services possible. However, as technology advances, security is being emphas...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,974 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2025

Traditional authentication systems with an authentication server that handles authentication requests from many clients have a major weakness, i.e., a single point of failure. This study presents an authentication paradigm based on blockchain, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
605 Views
48 Pages

SDAP-K: A Kerberos-Assisted Secure Data Auditing Protocol for Cloud Storage

  • Thangavel Murugan,
  • Nasurudeen Ahamed Noor Mohamed Badusha,
  • Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar and
  • Varalakshmi Perumal

3 August 2026

Cloud storage services have become a fundamental component of modern computing infrastructures, enabling scalable and cost-effective data management. However, outsourcing data to remote cloud servers introduces significant security challenges, partic...

(This article belongs to the Topic Security and Privacy in Distributed and Trustless Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,310 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2024

FIDO (Fast Identity Online) is a set of network identity standards established by the FIDO Alliance. It employs a framework based on public key cryptography to facilitate multi-factor authentication (MFA) and biometric login, ensuring the robust prot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,031 Views
22 Pages

16 October 2017

Internet-of-Things (IoT) include a large number of devices that can communicate across different networks. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) also includes a number of devices connected to the internet where wearable devices are also included. Both systems...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,157 Views
27 Pages

Elliptic Curve Signcryption-Based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Smart Cards

  • Anuj Kumar Singh,
  • Arun Solanki,
  • Anand Nayyar and
  • Basit Qureshi

23 November 2020

In the modern computing environment, smart cards are being used extensively, which are intended to authenticate a user with the system or server. Owing to the constrictions of computational resources, smart card-based systems require an effective des...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,657 Views
3 Pages

An Analysis of the Current Implementations Based on the WebAuthn and FIDO Authentication Standards

  • Martiño Rivera-Dourado,
  • Marcos Gestal,
  • Alejandro Pazos and
  • José M. Vázquez-Naya

During the last few years, some of the most relevant IT companies have started to develop new authentication solutions which are not vulnerable to attacks like phishing. WebAuthn and FIDO authentication standards were designed to replace or complemen...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th XoveTIC Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,137 Views
29 Pages

The Design and Implementation of Kerberos-Blockchain Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Authentication Across Diverse Network Scenarios

  • Maya Rahayu,
  • Md. Biplob Hossain,
  • Samsul Huda,
  • Yuta Kodera and ,
  • Md. Arshad Ali and
  • Yasuyuki Nogami
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) play an essential role in the intelligent transportation era, furnishing users with essential roadway data to facilitate optimal route selection and mitigate the risk of accidents. However, the network exposure make...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,180 Views
29 Pages

17 November 2025

In federated learning, secure aggregation is essential to protect the confidentiality of local model updates, ensuring that the server can access only the aggregated result without exposing individual contributions. However, conventional secure aggre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Cryptography and Blockchain Security, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,490 Views
10 Pages

Mutual Authentication Protocol for Role-Based Access Control Using Mobile RFID

  • Bing-Chang Chen,
  • Cheng-Ta Yang,
  • Her-Tyan Yeh and
  • Ching-Chao Lin

29 July 2016

The Internet has become the main transmission media in modern information systems due to the popularization of information technology and the rapid development of network technology. To use the Internet, we need complete security mechanisms which inc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from International Conference on Applied System Innovation 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
755 Views
24 Pages

26 March 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted hierarchical federated learning (HFL) has emerged as a promising architecture for Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart agriculture, which enables scalable model training over large and sparse farmlands. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers Collection in the Section ‘Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering’, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,163 Views
28 Pages

8 March 2023

The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a bridge between hosts and printers, and is supported by more than 98 percent of printers today. In addition to supporting local use, the IPP protocol also supports online use. Although this can expand the scop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,915 Views
27 Pages

29 April 2020

The fifth generation (5G) mobile network delivers high peak data rates with ultra-low latency and massive network capacity. Wireless sensor network (WSN) in Internet of Thing (IoT) architecture is of prominent use in 5G-enabled applications. The elec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks Applications for Health and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,036 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2020

The integration of Internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing technology has made our life more convenient in recent years. Cooperating with cloud computing, Internet of things can provide more efficient and practical services. People can accept Io...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Applications for Internet of Things Security and Privacy)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
153 Views
15 Pages

26 October 2026

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are widely adopted in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to implement low-cost authentication strategies to allow access to network resources only for legitimate nodes. PUFs exploit process parameter variations occur...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 13th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
655 Views
10 Pages

The Galileo program is adding a layer of security through the Galileo Assisted Commercial Authentication Service (ACAS). This service complements Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) by introducing signal authentication thro...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,645 Views
17 Pages

While transferring data to cloud servers frees users from having to manage it, it eventually raises new problems, such as data privacy. The concept of searchable encryption has drawn more and more focus in research as a means of resolving the tension...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,475 Views
17 Pages

Secure Token–Key Implications in an Enterprise Multi-Tenancy Environment Using BGV–EHC Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption

  • Pooja Dhiman,
  • Santosh Kumar Henge,
  • Rajakumar Ramalingam,
  • Ankur Dumka and ,
  • Rajesh Singh,
  • Anita Gehlot,
  • Mamoon Rashid,
  • Sultan S. Alshamrani,
  • Ahmed Saeed AlGhamdi and
  • Abdullah Alshehri
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Authentication, authorization, and data access control are playing major roles in data security and privacy. The proposed model integrated the multi-factor authentication–authorization process with dependable and non-dependable factors and para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications of Information Security Technology in Digital Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,764 Views
14 Pages

26 June 2021

The invention of electronic mail (e-mail) has made communication through the Internet easier than before. However, because the fundamental functions of the Internet are built on opensource technologies, it is critical to keep all transmitted e-mail s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,020 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2026

In emerging environments such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), secure authentication and key negotiation play a crucial role in protecting data transmitted over public networks. However, many existing authentication protocols are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Security)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,442 Views
26 Pages

Multiprotocol Authentication Device for HPC and Cloud Environments Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  • Antonio F. Díaz,
  • Ilia Blokhin,
  • Mancia Anguita,
  • Julio Ortega and
  • Juan J. Escobar

Multifactor authentication is a relevant tool in securing IT infrastructures combining two or more credentials. We can find smartcards and hardware tokens to leverage the authentication process, but they have some limitations. Users connect these dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Computer Architectures and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,152 Views
30 Pages

A Secure Approach Out-of-Band for e-Bank with Visual Two-Factor Authorization Protocol

  • Laerte Peotta de Melo,
  • Dino Macedo Amaral,
  • Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque,
  • Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior and ,
  • Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco and
  • Luis Javier García Villalba
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The article presents an innovative approach for secure authentication in internet banking transactions, utilizing an Out-of-Band visual two-factor authorization protocol. With the increasing rise of cyber attacks and fraud, new security models are ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,949 Views
26 Pages

Supervised Machine Learning Tools and PUF Based Internet of Vehicles Authentication Framework

  • Pintu Kumar Sadhu,
  • Jesse Eickholt,
  • Venkata P. Yanambaka and
  • Ahmed Abdelgawad

22 November 2022

The recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the fields of smart vehicles and integration empowers all cars to join to the internet and transfer sensitive traffic information. To enhance the security for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensors Networks in the IoT Era: Advanced Technologies, Recent Challenges, Smart Applications & Future Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,662 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2018

With the growing number of vehicles and popularity of various services in vehicular cloud computing (VCC), message exchanging among vehicles under traffic conditions and in emergency situations is one of the most pressing demands, and has attracted s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Trust and Privacy for Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,240 Views
26 Pages

Secure and Verifiable Edge-Federated Learning with Homomorphic Encryption and a Trusted Execution Environment for UAV Communication

  • Huachang Su,
  • Yekang Zhao,
  • Wenrui Zhang,
  • Hongling Zhang and ,
  • Shitao Huang,
  • Mingxin Lu and
  • Xiaoyang Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2026

To address the security challenges of untrusted servers and the difficulty in verifying malicious node identities in UAV swarm federated learning when relying solely on homomorphic encryption (HE), this paper proposes a verifiable HE-based federated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,456 Views
36 Pages

26 December 2025

Real-time peer-to-peer communication in web browsers typically relies on centralized signaling servers, creating single points of failure, privacy vulnerabilities, and censorship risks. We present WebRTC Swarms, a fully decentralized signaling archit...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,175 Views
17 Pages

This paper explores the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices into modern cybersecurity frameworks, and it is intended to be a binder for the incorporation of these devices into emerging cybersecurity paradigms. Most IoT devices rely on WPA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Smart Applications in IoT and Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
25 Pages

DLR-Auth: A Decentralized Lightweight and Revocable Authentication Framework for the Industrial Internet of Things

  • Yijia Dai,
  • Yitong Li,
  • Ye Yuan,
  • Xianwei Gao and ,
  • Cong Bian and
  • Meici Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The integration of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has posed prominent security challenges for resource-constrained devices. Existing authentication architectures often suffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,283 Views
25 Pages

5 February 2024

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced significant challenges in data authentication, necessitating a balance between scalability and security. Traditional approaches often rely on third parties, while blockchain-based sol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends and Advances in Telecommunications and Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,480 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2022

Counterfeit drugs are forgery-tagged medicines that are considered to be drugs without vigorous active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). India, being the world’s largest producer of drugs, faces a crucial issue of counterfeits. Moreover, counte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain Technology and Distributed Applications (DApps))
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,154 Views
24 Pages

A Role-Based Access Control Model in Modbus SCADA Systems. A Centralized Model Approach

  • Santiago Figueroa-Lorenzo,
  • Javier Añorga and
  • Saioa Arrizabalaga

14 October 2019

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control systems and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks implement industrial communication protocols to enable their operations. Modbus is an application protocol that allows communication between millio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Privacy, and Trustworthiness of Sensor Networks and Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,181 Views
14 Pages

9 September 2020

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology has become a promising concept for the near future smart grid eco-system. V2G improves smart grid resiliency by enabling two-way communication and electricity flows while reducing the greenhouse gases emission. V2G pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications for Smart Cyber Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,994 Views
18 Pages

A Secure Authentication Protocol Supporting Efficient Handover for UAV

  • Kang Wen,
  • Shengbao Wang,
  • Yixiao Wu,
  • Jie Wang and ,
  • Lidong Han and
  • Qi Xie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly pivotal in operations such as flood rescue, wildfire surveillance, and covert military endeavors, with their integration into the Internet of Things (IoT) networks broadening the scope of services they...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,096 Views
17 Pages

Development of a Lightweight Centralized Authentication Mechanism for the Internet of Things Driven by Fog

  • Jan Lansky,
  • Mahyar Sadrishojaei,
  • Amir Masoud Rahmani,
  • Mazhar Hussain Malik and ,
  • Faeze Kazemian and
  • Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 November 2022

The rapid development of technology has made the Internet of Things an integral element of modern society. Modern Internet of Things’ implementations often use Fog computing, an offshoot of the Cloud computing that offers localized processing p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,087 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2025

Data integrity and authenticity verification are essential requirements to provide reliability for applications running in a video delivery system. We design a prototype system for handling data integrity as well as encoding sensitive objects in a vi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,876 Views
20 Pages

Due to the prevalence and constantly increasing risk of cyber-attacks, new and evolving security mechanisms are required to protect information and networks and ensure the basic security principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability&mdas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,435 Views
23 Pages

A high level of data integrity is a strong requirement in systems where the life of people depends on accurate and timely responses. In healthcare emergency response systems, a centralized authority that handles data related to occurring events is pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Blockchains and the IoT—3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
720 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2026

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, yet practical deployments remain vulnerable to security threats such as Byzantine model poisoning, stealthy backdoor implantation, and integrity attacks that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Distributed Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,129 Views
26 Pages

A Kyber-Based Lightweight Cloud-Assisted Authentication Scheme for Medical IoT

  • He Yan,
  • Zhenyu Wang,
  • Liuming Lin,
  • Jing Sun and
  • Shuanggen Liu

24 March 2026

The Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) has promoted smart healthcare through the deep integration of wearable devices, wireless communication, and cloud services. However, this framework faces security risks, as attackers may exploit public channels t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,506 Views
27 Pages

31 October 2022

Integration of information communication technology via the Internet of Things devices and sensors can enable an efficient power service for utility providers to consumers in advanced metering infrastructure. Authentication and cryptographic mechanis...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,430 Views
15 Pages

A Lightweight Protocol for Secure Video Streaming

  • Algimantas Venčkauskas,
  • Nerijus Morkevicius,
  • Kazimieras Bagdonas,
  • Robertas Damaševičius and
  • Rytis Maskeliūnas

14 May 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) introduces many new challenges which cannot be solved using traditional cloud and host computing models. A new architecture known as fog computing is emerging to address these technological and security gaps. Traditional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next Generation Technologies for Sensor Networks and Internet of Things)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access

A Secure Facial-Biometric Authentication Microservice with Liveness Detection and Automated Security Testing

  • Geovanny Cudco,
  • Mayra Álvarez-Jiménez,
  • Héctor Morales and
  • Franklin Flores-Ayala
Eng. Proc.2026, 153(1), 10;https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2026153010 
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18 September 2026

Microservice-based web applications require authentication mechanisms that mitigate risks associated with reused credentials, phishing and session hijacking without compromising usability. This study presents the design, implementation and controlled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,134 Views
30 Pages

17 October 2025

Computational task offloading is a key technology in the field of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, where security issues represent a core challenge throughout the offloading process. We must ensure the legitimacy of both the offloading enti...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,403 Views
13 Pages

26 October 2025

Nowadays, Low-Power Internet of Things (LP-IoT) devices are widely utilized due to their affordability and low energy consumption. However, LP-IoT devices face significant security challenges, including data breaches, unauthorized access, and malicio...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,798 Views
20 Pages

A Secure and Scalable Authentication and Communication Protocol for Smart Grids

  • Muhammad Asfand Hafeez,
  • Kazi Hassan Shakib and
  • Arslan Munir

The growing adoption of smart grid systems presents significant advancements in the efficiency of energy distribution, along with enhanced monitoring and control capabilities. However, the interconnected and distributed nature of these systems also i...

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