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| Title | Energy Efficient Decentralized Authentication In Internet Of Underwater Things Using Blockchain |
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| ID_Doc | 23239 |
| Authors | Yazdinejad A.; Parizi R.M.; Srivastava G.; Dehghantanha A.; Choo K.-K.R. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Published | 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2019 - Proceedings |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps45667.2019.9024475 |
| Abstract | In recent years, there has been rapid growth in developing smart cities. Nearly 70% of the Earthâ™s surface is covered by water and a large proportion of underwater environments are still unknown and have not been explored. In this context, Internet of things (IoT) is one of the most important technologies used in smart cities. Due to the growth of IoT and its influence in all areas of human life, including the underwater environment, a new class of IoT, called Internet of underwater things (IoUT) has emerged. IoUT includes a network of underwater smart devices that are connected to each other and has applications in environmental monitoring, underwater exploration, disaster prevention and military. In autonomous interactions of underwater devices, objects must be authenticated and securely interconnected to avoid security risks by malicious nodes. Most authentication methods and security mechanisms are centralized and often require a trustful third party in communications, which may well increase the computation cost and energy consumption due to the subsequent overhead, especially for underwater communications. On the other hand, there are restrictions on devices in the underwater environment, the most important of which are energy constraints. In this paper, we propose a robust, transparent, and energy-efficient decentralized authentication mechanism for IoUT using blockchain technology. We show through results that the proposed method is suitable for underwater devices with limited memory, energy, and computational power. The proposed modelâ™s decentralized authentication in a cluster network has a significant effect on reducing the energy consumption of the devices by 74.63% compared to classic authentication methods. Moreover, using the proposed method allows a savings of more than 41.9% in end-to-end delay and increases delivery rate by 21.6%. © 2019 IEEE. |
| Author Keywords | Authentication; Blockchain; Decentralized; Energy efficiency; Internet of Underwater Things; IoT |
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