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Enhanced Lightweight Algorithm to Secure Data Transmission in IoT Systems

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most recent Internet evolution that integrates many smart devices, such as constrained devices, smart tablets, smart vehicles, smart sensors and services used by organizations or individuals to support a variety of areas to improve life quality including precision agriculture, smart health, and environment monitoring. IoT applications are vulnerable to malicious threats, hence the need for a robust and lightweight algorithm for a complete IoT communication system. The proposed solution treats the majority of security issues and guarantees trust registration and anonymous mutual authentication. Also, our solution deals with the intractability problem between IoT nodes using anonymity of link direction. In this context, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Identity Based Encryption and Pseudonym Based Cryptography techniques were used to ensure a lightweight secure IoT system. The results show the performance of the algorithm using Raspberry Pi 3 model B cards.

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    Sarra Jebri & Mohamed Abid

  2. SysCom Laboratory, National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Arij Ben Amor & Ammar Bouallegue

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Jebri, S., Ben Amor, A., Abid, M. et al. Enhanced Lightweight Algorithm to Secure Data Transmission in IoT Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 116, 2321–2344 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07792-3

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