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ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Cloud-Based Robots

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Security is one of the important aspects for many robotic applications. Cloud Robotics is one of the areas where security plays a vital role. Cloud-based robots access cloud resources to offload computational intensive tasks such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Cloud-based robots can also get access to on-demand services. However, there is a strong need to provide these services secured manner. In security, authentication is one of the critical aspects because it ensures that only legitimate users get access to resources. In cloud-based robots, we intend to provide cloud services to the authorized robots only. In this paper, we have created a secure mutual authentication scheme between robots and cloud servers using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) with the key agreement for robots that access the cloud resources. The proposed scheme has been testified against the various well-known attacks using the Proverif tool. Moreover, when compared with other ECC-based authentication schemes, our proposed authentication scheme found efficient than them.

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    Saurabh Jain, C. Nandhini & Rajesh Doriya

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Jain, S., Nandhini, C. & Doriya, R. ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Cloud-Based Robots. Wireless Pers Commun 117, 1557–1576 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07935-6

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