Privacy-Aware Authentication in a Sustainable Internet-of-Things Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2022) | Viewed by 25373
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cryptography; security and privacy in the Internet of Things; security protocols for wireless sensor networks; security protocols for body sensor networks; security protocols for the Internet of Things; quantum cryptography; privacy and security in computer systems
Interests: cryptography; network security; information security; blockchain security; cloud-assisted VANET security; lattice-based cryptography; security in WSNs and IoT
Interests: cryptography and wireless network security; authentication and encryption schemes
Interests: network security; blockchain; big data; AI; data mining
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Dear Colleagues,
The number of connected devices is growing exponentially, forming the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), a large network of networks connecting smart devices such as sensors and actuators. Such devices are adopted in various domains such as public health, smart grids, smart transportation, waste management, smart homes, smart cities, agriculture, and energy management. The benefits of these devices are even more evident for sustainable technological progress. Bear in mind that in such environments, tens and even hundreds of billions of devices will be connected. Such devices will have smart capabilities to collect, analyze, and even make decisions without any human interaction and will play an important role in a sustainable environment, economy, and overall paradigm. Security is a supreme requirement in such circumstances, and in particular, authentication is of high interest given the damage that could happen from a malicious unauthenticated device in an IoT system. Another important factor includes the privacy issues of authentication in light of hardware constraints, energy efficiency, and reliability. The efficiency of such devices will facilitate sustainable development and application. All these requirements make building a privacy-aware multilateral authentication for IoT challenging. The heterogeneous nature and specifics of the environment (e.g., the limited resources) merely magnify security threats and raise new privacy issues. Traditional security measures and approaches can only partly be applied to the new concepts and, in some cases, are yet to be adapted. The most highlighted issues with regard to security and privacy as new scenarios are the threats that have emerged due to the new sustainable environment and the application context.
This Special Issue of Sustainability, therefore, addresses the broader research field of privacy-aware authentication in the sustainable Internet of Things environment, with an emphasis on the challenges and open questions yet to be solved and answered related to authentication mechanisms maintaining the highest possible privacy level. Additionally, due to lower computation, communication, and/or storage requirements, such mechanisms will contribute to more sustainable solutions. We are searching for original, high-quality research articles and the latest advances in the theoretical or practical aspects of the field. The Special Issue will also accept and review articles that have a thorough methodology and results.
Dr. Marko Hölbl
Dr. SK Hafizul Islam
Prof. Dr. Marimuthu Karuppiah
Prof. Dr. Chien-Ming Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable privacy-aware cloud/edge-enabled IoT models
- sustainable privacy-aware authentication protocols
- security analysis of existing authentication mechanisms and protocols in IoT with an emphasis on privacy aspects
- sustainable models for facilitating privacy aspects of authentication mechanisms in IoT
- integration of distributed ledger technologies to assure privacy in IoT authentication
- privacy by design in IoT authentication
- attacks on authentication for IoT devices
- sustainable privacy-enhancing technologies for authentication in IoT
- taxonomy of IoT authentication schemes
- human aspects of authentication in IoT
- evaluation metrics for authentication schemes in IoT
- authentication for data aggregation on IoT devices
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