A secure multi-hop routing for IoT communication
Paul Loh Ruen Chze, Kan Siew Leong · 2014
This paper introduces a multi-hop routing protocol that enables secured IoT devices' communication. The routing protocol enables the IoT devices to authenticate before forming a new network or joining an existing network. The authentication uses multi-layer parameters to enhance the security of the communication. The proposed routing protocol embeds the multi-layer parameters into the routing algorithm, thus combining the authentication and routing processes without incurring significant overheads. The multi-layer parameters include a unique User-Controllable Identification, users' pre-agreed application(s), and a list of permitted devices, thus saving resources by maintaining smaller routing information. Experimental and field tests were conducted with results showing that our secure multi-hop routing is suitable to be deployed for IoT communication.