An Internet of Things Roaming Authentication Protocol Based on Heterogeneous Fusion Mechanism

Abstract

With the increasing and diversified Internet of Things (IoT) devices, more IoT heterogeneous wireless networks have emerged, providing more network services for IoT devices, especially mobile phones and other roaming devices. However, there are also some malicious users who use different means to attack the security of the network, so that more users begin to pay attention to the identity authentication and privacy protection of the Internet of Things. This paper designs an IoT node roaming authentication model, which is used to enhance the security authentication capability of the Internet of Things to roaming devices. In order to effectively prevent malicious nodes from connecting to the network, this paper proposes a roaming authentication protocol based on heterogeneous fusion mechanism (HFM-IoT). The authentication protocol uses the remote authentication server in the local and remote areas to perform interactive authentication on the roaming device, which increases the difficulty of attacking or infecting multiple network areas by malicious nodes. According to the security analysis, the protocol can protect against multiple network attacks, and it can be seen from the experimental simulation results that the protocol has lower energy burden and authentication delay.

Keywords

• Internet of things
• heterogeneous network
• node roaming
• identity authentication