ECC Based Lightweight Cybersecurity Solution For IoT Networks Utilising Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

The Security of the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained great attention recently due to the increased cyber-threats in those systems. IoT technologies have many use cases and real-life applications and the IoT devices have been widely produced by industries. However, the security issue of IoT devices has not been fully resolved, leaving those devices exposing to cyber-threats. IoT end devices are normally resource constraint, which makes the implementation of traditional security solutions extremely hard if not impossible. The emergence of IoT-Edge computing technologies can grant the IoT devices the ability to overcome the local resource constraint problem. The current industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) requires IoT devices to be secured in its data transmission, and protected from network Intrusions. Since many IoT devices reply on the unsecured Internet as a means for data transmission, there is an urgent need to provide a public key cryptographic technique to protect the end-to-end transmission between those IoT devices. In this paper, based on the Elliptic Curve Cryptographic (ECC) technique, we have proposed a lightweight asymmetric security solution to enhance secured transmission of data through utilising the IoT-Edge computing architecture. We also have successfully embedded our lightweight cryptography on the edge, and the IoT device. The experimental results has shown that the proposed lightweight ECC security system can provide better practice when implemented in the IoT-Edge environment.