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A Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol with Anonymity for IoT
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Daojing He, Nanchang University
  • Yanchang Cai, Nanchang University
  • Shanshan Zhu, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Ziming Zhao, Nanchang University
  • Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong
  • Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Document Type
Article
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.

DOI
10.1109/TWC.2023.3257028
Publication Date
3-24-2023
Keywords
  • authentication protocol,
  • Internet of Things (IoT),
  • IoT device,
  • lightweight
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Citation Information
D. He, Y. Cai, S. Zhu, Z. Zhao, S. Chan and M. Guizani, "A Lightweight Authentication and Key Exchange Protocol with Anonymity for IoT," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, pp.1-1, Mar 2023, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2023.3257028.