- Title
- A lightweight cyber security framework with context-awareness for pervasive computing environments
- Creator
- Al-Muhtadi, Jalal; Saleem, Kashif; Al-Rabiaah, Sumaya; Imran, Muhammad; Gawanmeh, Amjad; Rodrigues, Joel
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/185780
- Identifier
- vital:16734
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102610
- Identifier
- ISBN:2210-6707 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Internet of things (IoT) plays a key role in enabling smart sustainable cities. Pervasive computing over the IoT platform makes life more convenient by embedding sensors based on context-aware computing devices in the physical environment for the ubiquitous availability of computing resources. The sensors gather contextual information from the physical world and transmit it to receivers as per requirements or in case of environmental changes, such as temperature and humidity. However, the combination of dynamic operation and the need to handle sensitive and private data make the pervasive computing environment and IoT devices vulnerable to numerous attacks. Smart environments require a maximum level of safety assurance, such as trusted context producers and customers, which should protect sensitive information from exposure or monitoring. This paper discusses the major cyber threats in smart environments and proposes a novel lightweight security framework that authenticates and maintains the context providers and receivers. The cloud environment is adopted for user authentication at the user layer to implement access control and role assignment. Finally, the proposed security framework is implemented in the IBM cloud platform with six devices to evaluate its efficiency, sustainability, and secure communication. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Sustainable Cities and Society Vol. 66, no. (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- 3302 Building; 3304 Urban and regional planning; 4406 Human geography; Context-aware; Cyber security; Data privacy; Internet of things; Pervasive computing; Smart environment; Sustainability
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at the King Saud University for funding this work through research group no (RG-1439-022). This work is partially supported by the FCT/MCTES through national funds and when applicable co-funded EU funds under the Project UIDB/50008/2020; and by Brazilian National Council for Research and Development - CNPq, via Grant No. 309335/2017-5. The authors thank the Deanship of Scientific Research and researchers support and services unit (RSSU) at King Saud University for their technical support. Funding text 3: This work is partially supported by the FCT/MCTES through national funds and when applicable co-funded EU funds under the Project UIDB/50008/2020; and by Brazilian National Council for Research and Development - CNPq , via Grant No. 309335/2017-5.
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