A Lightweight Blockchain-Based Remote Mutual Authentication for AI-Empowered IoT Sustainable Computing Systems
B. D. Deebak, Fida Hussain Memon, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Kapal Dev, Weizheng Wang, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi, Chunhua Su
Abstract
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.