Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT
The introduction of 5G communication capabilities presents additional challenges for the development of products and services that can fully exploit the opportunities offered by high bandwidth, low latency networking. This is particularly relevant to an emerging interest in the Industrial Internet o...
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| author | Hussain Al-Aqrabi Anju P. Johnson Richard Hill Phil Lane Tariq Alsboui |
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| description | The introduction of 5G communication capabilities presents additional challenges for the development of products and services that can fully exploit the opportunities offered by high bandwidth, low latency networking. This is particularly relevant to an emerging interest in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is a foundation stone of recent technological revolutions such as Digital Manufacturing. A crucial aspect of this is to securely authenticate complex transactions between IIoT devices, whilst marshalling adversarial requests for system authorisation, without the need for a centralised authentication mechanism which cannot scale to the size needed. In this article we combine Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) hardware (using Field Programmable Gate Arrays—FPGAs), together with a multi-layer approach to cloud computing from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Through this, we demonstrate an approach to facilitate the development of improved multi-layer authentication mechanisms. We extend prior work to utilise hardware security primitives for adversarial trojan detection, which is inspired by a biological approach to parameter analysis. This approach is an effective demonstration of attack prevention, both from internal and external adversaries. The security is further hardened through observation of the device parameters of connected IIoT equipment. We demonstrate that the proposed architecture can service a significantly high load of device authentication requests using a multi-layer architecture in an arbitrarily acceptable time of less than 1 second. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3416525d4ae340ce88e86d15685179d22023-11-19T20:16:03ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-03-01207196310.3390/s20071963Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoTHussain Al-Aqrabi0Anju P. Johnson1Richard Hill2Phil Lane3Tariq Alsboui4Department of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics (CIndA), School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UKDepartment of Engineering and Technology, Centre for Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge (PARK), School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UKDepartment of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics (CIndA), School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UKDepartment of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics (CIndA), School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UKDepartment of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics (CIndA), School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UKThe introduction of 5G communication capabilities presents additional challenges for the development of products and services that can fully exploit the opportunities offered by high bandwidth, low latency networking. This is particularly relevant to an emerging interest in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is a foundation stone of recent technological revolutions such as Digital Manufacturing. A crucial aspect of this is to securely authenticate complex transactions between IIoT devices, whilst marshalling adversarial requests for system authorisation, without the need for a centralised authentication mechanism which cannot scale to the size needed. In this article we combine Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) hardware (using Field Programmable Gate Arrays—FPGAs), together with a multi-layer approach to cloud computing from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Through this, we demonstrate an approach to facilitate the development of improved multi-layer authentication mechanisms. We extend prior work to utilise hardware security primitives for adversarial trojan detection, which is inspired by a biological approach to parameter analysis. This approach is an effective demonstration of attack prevention, both from internal and external adversaries. The security is further hardened through observation of the device parameters of connected IIoT equipment. We demonstrate that the proposed architecture can service a significantly high load of device authentication requests using a multi-layer architecture in an arbitrarily acceptable time of less than 1 second.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/7/1963Internet of Thingscloud computinghardware securityfield programmable gate array (FPGA)5Ganalytics |
| spellingShingle | Hussain Al-Aqrabi Anju P. Johnson Richard Hill Phil Lane Tariq Alsboui Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT Sensors Internet of Things cloud computing hardware security field programmable gate array (FPGA) 5G analytics |
| title | Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT |
| title_full | Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT |
| title_fullStr | Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT |
| title_short | Hardware-Intrinsic Multi-Layer Security: A New Frontier for 5G Enabled IIoT |
| title_sort | hardware intrinsic multi layer security a new frontier for 5g enabled iiot |
| topic | Internet of Things cloud computing hardware security field programmable gate array (FPGA) 5G analytics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/7/1963 |
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