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The rapid increase in the number of connected things across the globe has been brought about by the deployment of the Internet of things (IoTs) at home, in organizations and industries. The innovation of smart things has been envisioned through various protocols, but the most prevalent protocols are publish-subscribe protocols such as Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). One of the major concerns in the adoption of such protocols for the IoTs is the lack of security mechanisms as the existing security protocols cannot be adapted due to their large overhead of computations, storage and communications. To address this issue, we propose a lightweight protocol using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for IoT security. We present analytical and simulation results, and compare the results to the existing protocols of traditional Internet.
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Our thanks to Pervasive Computing and Networking Lab, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia for material and financial support.
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Diro, A.A., Chilamkurti, N., Veeraraghavan, P. (2017). Elliptic Curve Based Cybersecurity Schemes for Publish-Subscribe Internet of Things. In: Lee, JH., Pack, S. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. QShine 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 199. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60717-7_26
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