Flexible data access control in D2D communications

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Highlights

  • A scheme to secure D2D communications on the basis of multiple trust levels.

  • Flexible data access control for all D2D communication scenarios.

  • A robust trust evaluation method for D2D communications.

  • Performance evaluation through security proof, analysis, and simulations.

Abstract

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications have been regarded as an advanced technology for the next generation mobile communication networks and wireless systems (5G). It is essential to secure D2D communication data for resisting malicious attacks. However, secure D2D communications among mobile devices have not been well solved. By paying attention to the important role of trust in securing D2D communications, in this paper, we propose a scheme using either a General Trust (GT) level issued by a core network or a Local Trust (LT) level evaluated by a device or both to control D2D communication data access by applying Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE). This scheme realizes secure data communications among mobile devices under the legacy system model of Long-Term Evolution (LTE). Performance analysis and evaluation demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective with regard to security, computation complexity, communication cost, flexibility and scalability.

Keywords

Device to Device (D2D) communications
Trust
Security
Privacy
Attribute-Base Encryption (ABE)
Access control

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Zheng Yan received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Eng. degree in computer science and engineering from the Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China in 1994 and 1997, respectively, the second M.Eng. degree in information security from the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2000, and the licentiate of science and the doctor of science in technology in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. She is currently a full professor at the Xidian University, Xi’an, China and a visiting professor at the Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Her research interests are in trust, security and privacy, social networking, cloud computing, networking systems, and data mining. She has authored 160+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and invented 60+ patents and patent applications. She solely authored two books about trust management. Prof. Yan serves as an organization and program committee member for 70+ international conferences and workshops. She is also an associate editor of many reputable journals, e.g., Information Sciences, Information Fusion, JNCA, IEEE Access, IEEE IoT Journal, SCN, Soft Computing, etc. She is a senior member of the IEEE.

Haomeng Xie received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2016, where he is currently continuing to pursue the master degree in information security. His research interests are in security, privacy preservation, and trust management in social networking.

Peng Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1999. His research interests include mobile Internet technologies and services. He has published over 60 papers and is an inventor of 10+ patents. Dr. Zhang serves as an organization and program committee member for many international conferences a workshops.

Brij B. Gupta received Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in the area of Information an Cyber Security. In 2009, he was selected for Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship awarded by Government of Canada. He published more than 100 research papers (including 02 books and 14 book chapters) in International Journals and Conferences of high repute including IEEE, Elsevier, ACM, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Inderscience, etc. He has visited several countries i.e. Canada, Japan, Malaysia, China, Hong-Kong, etc. to present his research work. His biography was selected and published in the 30th Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 2012. Dr. Gupta also received Young Faculty research fellowship award from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, government of India in 2017. He is also working as principal investigator of various R&D projects. He is serving as associate editor of IEEE Access, Associate editor of IJICS, Inderscience and Executive editor of IJITCA, Inderscience, respectively. He is also serving as reviewer for Journals of IEEE, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, etc. He is also serving as guest editor of various reputed Journals. He was also visiting researcher with Yamaguchi University, Japan in January 2015. At present, Dr. Gupta is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra India. His research interest includes Information security, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Web security, Intrusion detection and Phishing.