Towards achieving a secure authentication mechanism for IoT devices in 5G networks
Original version
Santos, B., Dzogovic, B., Feng, B., Do, T.V., Jacot, N. & Do, V.T. (2019). Towards achieving a secure authentication mechanism for IoT devices in 5G networks. In: M. Qiu (Ed.). 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing / 2019 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud, 2019. 130-135Abstract
Upon the new paradigm of Cellular Internet of Things, through the usage of technologies such as Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), a massive amount of IoT devices will be able to use the mobile network infrastructure to perform their communications. However, it would be beneficial for these devices to use the same security mechanisms that are present in the cellular network architecture, so that their connections to the application layer could see an increase on security. As a way to approach this, an identity management and provisioning mechanism, as well as an identity federation between an IoT platform and the cellular network is proposed as a way to make an IoT device deemed worthy of using the cellular network and perform its actions.