Towards Secure and Privacy-Preserving IoT Enabled Smart Home: Architecture and Experimental Study

Mamun  Abu-Tair; Soufiene Djahel; Philip  Perry; Bryan Scotney; Unsub Zia; Jorge Martinez  Carracedo; Ali Sajjad

doi:10.3390/s20216131

Towards Secure and Privacy-Preserving IoT Enabled Smart Home: Architecture and Experimental Study

Mamun Abu-Tair, Soufiene Djahel, Philip Perry, Bryan Scotney, Unsub Zia, Jorge Martinez Carracedo, Ali Sajjad

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Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is increasingly pervasive in all aspects of our life and its usage is anticipated to significantly increase in future Smart Cities to support their myriad of revolutionary applications. This paper introduces a new architecture that can support several IoT-enabled smart home use cases, with a specified level of security and privacy preservation. The security threats that may target such an architecture are highlighted along with the cryptographic algorithms that can prevent them. An experimental study is performed to provide more insights about the suitability of several lightweight cryptographic algorithms for use in securing the constrained IoT devices used in the proposed architecture. The obtained results showed that many modern lightweight symmetric cryptography algorithms, as CLEFIA and TRIVIUM, are optimized for hardware implementations and can consume up to 10 times more energy than the legacy techniques when they are implemented in software. Moreover, the experiments results highlight that CLEFIA significantly outperforms TRIVIUM under all of the investigated test cases, and the latter performs 100 times worse than the legacy cryptographic algorithms tested.

Original language	English
Article number	6131
Number of pages	14
Journal	Sensors
Volume	20
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216131
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2020
Externally published	Yes

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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This research is supported by the BTIIC (BT Ireland Innovation Centre) project, funded by BT and Invest Northern Ireland.

Keywords

Data anonymisation
IoT
Lightweight cryptography
Privacy preservation
Security
Smart home

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Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Instrumentation
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Biochemistry

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