Technical Report-IoT Devices Proximity Authentication In Ad Hoc Network Environment
This addresses security for IoT devices in ad hoc environments, but it is incremental as it builds on existing IEEE 802.11 infrastructure.
The paper tackles IoT device authentication in ad hoc networks by implementing a scheme that uses ambient access point data from beacon frames to confirm proximity between devices, achieving authentication without human interaction.
Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed communication technology system that offers the possibility for physical devices (e.g. vehicles home appliances sensors actuators etc.) known as Things to connect and exchange data more importantly without human interaction. Since IoT plays a significant role in our daily lives we must secure the IoT environment to work effectively. Among the various security requirements authentication to the IoT devices is essential as it is the first step in preventing any negative impact of possible attackers. Using the current IEEE 802.11 infrastructure this paper implements an IoT devices authentication scheme based on something that is in the IoT devices environment (i.e. ambient access points). Data from the broadcast messages (i.e. beacon frame characteristics) are utilized to implement the authentication factor that confirms proximity between two devices in an ad hoc IoT network.