DISTANT: DIStributed Trusted Authority-based key managemeNT for beyond 5G wireless mobile small cells

Ree, Marcus de; Μαντάς, Γεώργιος; Rodrı́guez, Jonathan; Otung, Ifiok; Verikoukis, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2021.06.012

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Their key management scheme incorporated the extensions of verifiable secret sharing (VSS) [13] and proactive secret sharing (PSS) [14], [15] to prevent malicious adversaries from disabling or compromising the system (see Section III-B). More novel schemes, proposed by Deng et al [16] and da Silva et al [17] were based on traditional identity-based public key cryptography (ID-PKC) and the schemes by Zhang et al [18], Li et al [19], Lai et al [20], Gharib et al [21] and de Ree et al [22] were based on certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC). Therefore, the FD-TTP took the role of a private key generator (PKG) and a key generation center (KGC), respectively, to provide network nodes with their (partial) private key.…”

Section: A Conventional Fd-ttp-based Key Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Disruptive Adversary: A disruptive adversary [22] is a malicious server that provides a false key management service. This false key management service can be the provisioning of a false subshare during (i) the admission of new nodes or (ii) the updating of every node's share.…”

Section: B Adversarial Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to the closely related key management schemes with a share updating protocol [11], [12], [19], [22], our protocol is unique in the fact that it allows the periodic updating of all the coefficients of the update polynomial 1 . Meaning that the compromise of the master secret would be negated after the execution of our share updating protocol.…”

Section: Each Nodementioning

confidence: 99%

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DECENT: Decentralized and Efficient Key Management to Secure Communication in Dense and Dynamic Environments

Ree

Μαντάς

Rodriguez

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), one aspect of the Smart City paradigm, aim to improve the efficiency, convenience, and safety of travelers. The integration of (vehicular) communication technologies allows communication between the on-board communication units (OBUs) of vehicles, roadside units (RSUs), and vulnerable road users (VRUs), and contribute to the efficacy of ITS applications. However, these additional sources of information must be reliable and accurate. Security primitives such as confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity are required, but only achievable when supported with a suitable cryptographic key management scheme. This paper presents the design of a decentralized and efficient key management scheme, abbreviated as the DECENT scheme. This scheme provides secure multihop communication in dense and dynamic network environments while functioning in a self-organized manner. Through threshold secret sharing techniques, network nodes act as a distributed trusted third party (TTP) such that a threshold number of nodes can collaborate to execute key management functions. These functions include decentralized node admission and key updating. Novelties include (i) the unique self-healing characteristic, meaning that DECENT is capable of independently recovering from network compromise, and (ii) guidelines for choosing an appropriate security threshold in any deployment scenario which maximizes the level of security while simultaneously guaranteeing that decentralized key management services can be provided.

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Section: A Conventional Fd-ttp-based Key Managementmentioning

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Section: B Adversarial Modelmentioning

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DECENT: Decentralized and Efficient Key Management to Secure Communication in Dense and Dynamic Environments

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Rodriguez

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IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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“…The proposed approach should be scalable and support a highly dense mobile environment spread across a large geographical area and be suitable for the small cell scenario in 5G and beyond networks [24,25,26,27]. Towards this end, we are looking at different decentralized integrity schemes to distribute the secret keys used for HMAC-based integrity schemes to the participating nodes.…”

Section: Key Management Schemes For Nc-enabled Small Cellsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Considering the above aspects, this paper proposes a distributed key management protocol for secure NC-enabled environments. The idea of using decentralized key management schemes to suit the requirements of mobile networks in the 5G and beyond era has got significant research attractions in the recent years [24,25,26,27]. The proposed key distribution protocol employs the distributed ledger hosted by the BSH controllers to efficiently distribute the keys in the dynamic environment.…”

Section: Key Management Schemes For Nc-enabled Small Cellsmentioning

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An Integrated Approach for Energy Efficient Handover and Key Distribution Protocol for Secure NC-enabled Small Cells

Vasudevan,

Tayyab,

Koudouridis

et al. 2022

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Future wireless networks must serve dense mobile networks with high data rates, keeping energy requirements to a possible minimum. The small cell-based network architecture and device-to-device (D2D) communication are already being considered part of 5G networks and beyond. In such environments, network coding (NC) can be employed to achieve both higher throughput and energy efficiency. However, NC-enabled systems need to address security challenges specific to NC, such as pollution attacks. All integrity schemes against pollution attacks generally require proper key distribution and management to ensure security in a mobile environment. Additionally, the mobility requirements in small cell environments are more challenging and demanding in terms of signaling overhead. This paper proposes a blockchain-assisted key distribution protocol tailored for MAC-based integrity schemes, which combined with an uplink reference signal (UL RS) handover mechanism, enables energy efficient secure NC. The performance analysis of the protocol during handover scenarios indicates its suitability for ensuring high level of security against pollution attacks in dense small cell environments with multiple adversaries being

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Security for UDNs: A Step Toward 6G

Ree

Parsamehr

Adat

et al. 2021

Enabling 6G Mobile Networks

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DISTANT: DIStributed Trusted Authority-based key managemeNT for beyond 5G wireless mobile small cells

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

DECENT: Decentralized and Efficient Key Management to Secure Communication in Dense and Dynamic Environments

DECENT: Decentralized and Efficient Key Management to Secure Communication in Dense and Dynamic Environments

An Integrated Approach for Energy Efficient Handover and Key Distribution Protocol for Secure NC-enabled Small Cells

Security for UDNs: A Step Toward 6G

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