Security scheme for mobility management in the internet of things. (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brian, Oryema; Chun, Seung Man; Jung, Cheol Woo; Park, Jong Tae
• Is Part Of: International journal of ad hoc and ubiquitous computing. Volume 29:Number 1/2(2018)
• Page Start: 116
• Page End: 128
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: security in internet of things -- secure mobility -- secure binding -- private key in IoT; Ubiquitous computing -- Periodicals; Embedded computer systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer architecture -- Periodicals; 004.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8225

Abstract

A mobility management protocol based on the constrained application protocol (CoAP), called the CoAP-based mobility management protocol (CoMP), was suggested to counteract the constraints of mobile internet protocol version 6 (MIPv6) in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. CoMP exchanges Binding Update (BU) messages to manage location changes, but BU messages are subject to security vulnerabilities, such as denial of service (DoS), false BU, session hijacking, and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. In this paper, we extend CoMP by proposing a security scheme based on a private key to protect the BU CoMP messages exchanged between the mobile nodes and clients, referred to as private key-based BU for CoMP (PKBU-CoMP). PKBU-CoMP ensures that mobile nodes check and confirm the address ownership and validity of mobile nodes before performing any BU operation. The performance of PKBU-CoMP is analysed both mathematically and using Cooja simulations.