A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Remote Mutual Authentication for AI-Empowered IoT Sustainable Computing Systems

摘要

Internet of Things (IoT) has led to significant advancements in communication technologies, specifically, concerning IoT-based sustainable information systems. Lately, industry-academic communities have made great strides for the development of security in IoT-based applications, such as traffic management, industrial automation systems, military surveillance systems, transportation, parking, etc. The sustainable IoT converges AI and blockchain technologies for enhancing quality of individual's life. As a result, emerging IoT applications operate a distributed ledger technology to provide robust-level of encryption and execution for contractual agreement that resolves interoperability and security issues. Thus, this article proposes a blockchain-based remote mutual authentication (B-RMA) that considers smart devices and cloud networks to offer security and privacy. The proposed B-RMA can coexist with the IoT-based smart environment to decentralize the processing of user authentication requests. The prominence of the proposed strategies including security efficiency and privacy protection, is evaluated using informal security analysis. Moreover, a runtime platform "Node.js" was used to analyze the communication metrics, such as execution time, throughput, and overhead ratio, over the concurrent requests. The investigation results prove that the B-RMA achieves a scalable environment, accordingly.

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