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A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to their efficient, flexible, low-cost and dynamic infras...

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Autores principales: Khan, Fazlullah, Rehman, Ateeq ur, Yahya, Abid, Jan, Mian Ahmad, Chuma, Joseph, Tan, Zhiyuan, Hussain, Khalid
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6806283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31590452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19194321
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author Khan, Fazlullah
Rehman, Ateeq ur
Yahya, Abid
Jan, Mian Ahmad
Chuma, Joseph
Tan, Zhiyuan
Hussain, Khalid
author_facet Khan, Fazlullah
Rehman, Ateeq ur
Yahya, Abid
Jan, Mian Ahmad
Chuma, Joseph
Tan, Zhiyuan
Hussain, Khalid
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description The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to their efficient, flexible, low-cost and dynamic infrastructures. These networks utilize the available resources efficiently to maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) in a multi-hop communication. However, in a multi-hop communication, the relay nodes can be malicious, thus requiring a secured and reliable data transmission. In this paper, we propose a QoS-aware secured communication scheme for IoT-based networks (QoS-IoT). In QoS-IoT, a Sybil attack detection mechanism is used for the identification of Sybil nodes and their forged identities in multi-hop communication. After Sybil nodes detection, an optimal contention window (CW) is selected for QoS provisioning, that is, to achieve per-flow fairness and efficient utilization of the available bandwidth. In a multi-hop communication, the medium access control (MAC) layer protocols do not perform well in terms of fairness and throughput, especially when the nodes generate a large amount of data. It is because the MAC layer has no capability of providing QoS to prioritized or forwarding flows. We evaluate the performance of QoS-IoT in terms of Sybil attack detection, fairness, throughput and buffer utilization. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing schemes and significantly enhances the performance of the network with a large volume of data. Moreover, the proposed scheme is resilient against Sybil attack.
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spelling pubmed-68062832019-11-07 A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks Khan, Fazlullah Rehman, Ateeq ur Yahya, Abid Jan, Mian Ahmad Chuma, Joseph Tan, Zhiyuan Hussain, Khalid Sensors (Basel) Article The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to their efficient, flexible, low-cost and dynamic infrastructures. These networks utilize the available resources efficiently to maintain the Quality of Service (QoS) in a multi-hop communication. However, in a multi-hop communication, the relay nodes can be malicious, thus requiring a secured and reliable data transmission. In this paper, we propose a QoS-aware secured communication scheme for IoT-based networks (QoS-IoT). In QoS-IoT, a Sybil attack detection mechanism is used for the identification of Sybil nodes and their forged identities in multi-hop communication. After Sybil nodes detection, an optimal contention window (CW) is selected for QoS provisioning, that is, to achieve per-flow fairness and efficient utilization of the available bandwidth. In a multi-hop communication, the medium access control (MAC) layer protocols do not perform well in terms of fairness and throughput, especially when the nodes generate a large amount of data. It is because the MAC layer has no capability of providing QoS to prioritized or forwarding flows. We evaluate the performance of QoS-IoT in terms of Sybil attack detection, fairness, throughput and buffer utilization. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing schemes and significantly enhances the performance of the network with a large volume of data. Moreover, the proposed scheme is resilient against Sybil attack. MDPI 2019-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6806283/ /pubmed/31590452 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19194321 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Jan, Mian Ahmad
Chuma, Joseph
Tan, Zhiyuan
Hussain, Khalid
A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks
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title_fullStr A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks
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title_short A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6806283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31590452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19194321
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