Cybersecurity, complimenting authentication, has become the backbone of the Internet of Things. In the authentication process, the word authentication is of the utmost importance, as it is the door through which both Mr. Right Guy and Mr. Wrong Guy c...
Authenticated key agreement is a process in which protocol participants communicate over a public channel to share a secret session key, which is then used to encrypt data transferred in subsequent communications. LLAKEP, an authenticated key agreeme...
With wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a driver can access various useful information for convenient driving, such as traffic congestion, emergence, vehicle accidents, and speed. However, a driver and traffic manager can be vulnerable to various attac...
The rise of telehealth in smart cities has introduced both opportunities and challenges, particularly in securing sensitive patient data and ensuring reliable authentication. This paper presents a chaos-based dynamic authentication scheme designed to...
The metaverse, which amalgamates physical and virtual realms for diverse social activities, has been the focus of extensive application development by organizations, research institutes, and companies. However, these applications are often isolated,...
Handover authentication protocol is a promising access control technology in the fields of WLANs and mobile wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we firstly review an effcient handover authentication protocol, named PairHand, and its existing secu...
In recent years, with the widespread application of UAV swarm, the security problems faced have been gradually discovered, such as the lack of reliable identity authentication, which makes UAVs vulnerable to invasion. To solve these security problems...
In today’s advanced network and digital age, the Internet of Things network is experiencing a significant growing trend and, due to its wide range of services and network coverage, has been able to take a special place in today’s technolo...
We consider an authentication process that makes use of biometric data or the output of a physical unclonable function (PUF), respectively, from an information theoretical point of view. We analyse different definitions of achievability for the authe...
The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet of Things is resulting in a steady increase of cyberattacks in all of its facets. One of the most predominant attack vectors is related to its identity management, as it grants the ability to impersonate a...
In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments, vehicles and roadside units (RSUs) communicate predominantly through public channels. These vehicles and RSUs exchange various data, such as traffic density, location, speed, etc. Therefore, secure and...
Mobile user authentication acts as the first line of defense, establishing confidence in the claimed identity of a mobile user, which it typically does as a precondition to allowing access to resources in a mobile device. NIST states that password sc...
A smart-card-based user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks (in short, a SUA-WSN scheme) is designed to restrict access to the sensor data only to users who are in possession of both a smart card and the corresponding password. While a...
An Internet of Things (IoT) system for managing and coordinating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has revolutionized the industrial sector. The largest issue with the design of the Internet of UAVs (IoUAV) is security. Conspicuously, the novel contrib...
The rapid development of intelligent networked vehicles (ICVs) has brought many positive effects. Unfortunately, connecting to the outside exposes ICVs to security threats. Using secure protocols is an important approach to protect ICVs from hacker a...
The Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks play important roles in the latest systems for managing and monitoring various types of data. These 5G based IoT environments collect various data in real-time using micro-sensors as IoT things devices and...
The Internet of Things offers a wide range of possibilities that can be exploited more or less explicitly for user authentication, ranging from specifically designed systems including biometric devices to environmental sensors that can be opportunist...
Authentication protocol is a critical part of any application to manage the access control in many applications. A former research recently proposed a lightweight authentication scheme to transmit data in an IoT subsystem securely. Although the desig...
The development of 5G networks has rapidly increased the use of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices for control, monitoring, and processing purposes. Biometric-based user authentication can prevent unauthorized access to IIoT devices, thereb...
The integration of Internet Protocol version 6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs) provided IP technologies within wireless sensor networks that dramatically increased the Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, to facilitate effic...
There is broad consensus that remote health monitoring will benefit all stakeholders in the healthcare system and that it has the potential to save billions of dollars. Among the major concerns that are preventing the patients from widely adopting th...
Nowadays, with rapid advancement of both the upcoming 5G architecture construction and emerging Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication provides a novel paradigm for mobile networking. By facilitating continuous and h...
Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) formed by cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require formally proven secure and resource-efficient authentication because open wireless channels allow active adversaries to inject commands, replay traffic, and...
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a new paradigm for vehicular networks. Using diverse access methods, IoV enables vehicles to connect with their surroundings. However, without data security, IoV settings might be hazardous. Because of the IoV’...
The edge devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures are increasingly susceptible to piracy. These pirated edge devices pose a serious threat to security, as an adversary can get access to the private network through these non-a...
A smart city is a concept that leverages technology to improve the quality of life for citizens, enhance sustainability, and streamline urban services. The goal of a smart city is to use data and technology to manage resources and assets efficiently,...
With the development of cloud computing and communication technology, users can access the internet of things (IoT) services provided in various environments, including smart home, smart factory, and smart healthcare. However, a user is insecure vari...
Authentication is considered one of the most critical technologies for the next generation of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) due to its ability to significantly improve the security of sensors. However, higher frequency cyber-attacks and more...
With the increasing demand for a digital world, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is growing rapidly across various industries. In manufacturing, particularly in Industry 4.0, the IIoT assumes a vital role. It encompasses many devices such as...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is rapidly expanding into sensitive applications, necessitating robust and efficient authentication. Traditional methods struggle against prevalent attacks, especially considering the unique vulnerabilities of the IoD, su...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly being integrated into various fields, significantly impacting and facilitating many aspects of human life. However, the increasingly prominent security issues associated with WSNs have become a significant...
The Internet of Medical Things represents a pivotal application of Internet of Things technology in Healthcare 4.0, offering substantial practical benefits in enhancing medical quality, reducing costs, and minimizing errors. In history, researchers h...
The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across industrial and critical sectors requires robust and efficient authentication mechanisms. Traditional authentication systems struggle to balance security, privacy and computational efficiency...
Despite significant advancements in fingerprint-based authentication, existing models still suffer from challenges such as high false acceptance and rejection rates, computational inefficiency, and vulnerability to spoofing attacks. Addressing these...
With the rapid deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has become an increasingly vital component in the development of smart cities. However, the openness of IoV also gives rise to critical issues such...
As more Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being used, more sensitive data and services are also being hosted by, or accessed via, IoT devices. This leads to a need for a stronger authentication solution for the IoT context, and a stronger authenti...
Secure authentication is an essential mechanism required by the vast majority of computer systems and various applications in order to establish user identity. Credentials such as passwords and biometric data should be protected against theft, as use...
This study introduces a promising authentication framework utilizing brain–computer interface (BCI) technology to enhance both security protocols and user experience. A key strength of this approach lies in its reliance on objective, physiologi...
With the expansion of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), real-time data collected by smart sensors deployed in factories are shared over open channels , which may cause unauthorized access of transmitted messages by adversaries, thus causing t...
Augmented reality (AR) is a virtual technology that integrates virtual information and objects into real environments, offering unprecedented possibilities in such fields such as architecture, education, and healthcare. Real-time communication and se...
In the contemporary era, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged as a vital technology in intelligent transportation systems, substantially enhancing the overall travel experience by providing advanced services to vehicles while ensuring driv...
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...
The rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and its application across various sectors has led to increased interconnectivity and data sharing between devices and sensors. While this has brought convenience to users, it has also...
Wireless sensor networks are a promising application of the Internet of Things in the sustainable development of smart cities, and have been afforded significant attention since first being proposed. Authentication protocols aim to protect the securi...
Wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs) have evolved alongside the development of communication systems, and the integration of cloud computing has enabled scalable and efficient medical data management. However, since the messages in WMSNs are tran...
This research introduces Fortified-Edge 2.0, a novel authentication framework that addresses critical security and privacy challenges in Physically Unclonable Function (PUF)-based systems for collaborative edge computing (CEC). Unlike conventional me...
In quantum secure multi-party summation protocols, some attackers can impersonate legitimate participants in the summation process, and easily steal the summation results from the participants. This is often overlooked for existing secure multi-party...
The use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is almost inevitable in the near future for the sake of the environment and our plant’s long-term sustainability. The availability of an Electric-Vehicle-Charging Station (EVCS) is the key challenge that owner...
The design and implementation of two-factor schemes designed for roaming mobile users for global mobility networks in smart cities requires attention to protect the scheme from various security attacks, such as the replay attack, impersonation attack...
Physical unclonable function (PUF), a hardware-efficient approach, has drawn a lot of attention in the security research community for exploiting the inevitable manufacturing variability of integrated circuits (IC) as the unique fingerprint of each I...
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