RT-OCF: A Lightweight Device-to-Device Framework for the Internet of Things

Author(s):  
Chanhee Lee ◽  
Jaehong Jo ◽  
Jongsung Lee ◽  
Daesung An ◽  
Jaehyun Cho ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  

The current IP and other networks such as Power Smart Grids are fast evolving, thus resulting in diverse connectivity methodologies. This has led to the emergence of "the Internet of Things” (IoT) methodologywhose goal is to transform the current IP and related networks to Device-to-Device (D-2-D) basis. It will seamlessly interconnect the globe via intelligent devices and sensors of varying types, this resulting in voluminousgeneration and exchange of data in excess of 20 billion Internet-connected objects and sensors (things) by 2022.The resultant structure will benefit mankind by helping us make tough decisions as well as be provisioned ofbeneficial services. In this paper, we overview both IoT enabled network architecture as well as security forassociated objects and devices. We commence with a description of a generalized IoT enabled network's security architecture as well as how the various elements constituting them interact. We then describe an approachthat allows the protection of both constrained and unconstrained IoT devices through robust encryption as wellas authentication so that both can equally leverage from the same security framework, but still maintaining lowcomputational loads, by avoiding excessive computational operations.


Similar to how humans communicate, devices will have to communicate with each other in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Where the devices themselves become the users of the knowledge or the data that is acquired. Hence we can say that device-to-device communication becomes an intrinsic part of IoT. Devices have to communicate autonomously with each other without any centralized monitoring system. It will be more powerful when the devices can communicate in a multi-hop manner rather than a single-hop manner where the information when and where needed can be accumulated and used. This leads to a need where there must be a group communication between the devices in a particular network. Hence information about the network and the environment in which the devices operate can be identified and the relevant knowledge can be transferred to a peer network or a device for further information gathering or the peer nodes can be used as intermediate nodes in the multi-hop network. Here we are proposing a network of multi-hop interconnected intelligent IoT devices that can communicate among its peer devices gather information and send the information in a multi-hop fashion making using of the adjacent networks or clusters.


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