VALIDATION OF ULTRALIGHTWEIGHT MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR RESOURCE CONSTRAINT PERCEPTION LAYER

Abstract

IoT is an evolved version of ubiquitous computing where all the objects have virtual presence over the internet. The embedded systems and the smart sensors/actuators work in joint effort to accomplish user defined objectives. The IoT network collect real time data from the environment and then process this information to generate control signals and finally actuate the controlled variable to a desired reference benchmark. The enabling technologies for the sensing and identification are wireless sensors and RFID system. The RFID are being commonly used as they are less cost, non-line of sight scanning and long range. Issues since this network is the source of data for the application the sensing layer had to face security and privacy. In this thesis, the minimalist crypto suits designed for ISO 18000 6C passive tags are studied. In the literature, these suites are defined suitable for the RFID tags only. However, this thesis proves their validity for a greater range of memory and power constraint devices.