Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes
The IoT-based smart grid provides many benefits to both energy consumers and energy producers, such as advanced metering functions, improved reliability, and management. Increasingly with the rise of smart homes and smart cities, security is a concern, as data networks increasingly run parallel to p...
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| description | The IoT-based smart grid provides many benefits to both energy consumers and energy producers, such as advanced metering functions, improved reliability, and management. Increasingly with the rise of smart homes and smart cities, security is a concern, as data networks increasingly run parallel to power networks. Ensuring good security practices are implemented in the smart home is critical. This study proposes a Home Area Network architecture design, and secure ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) based authentication scheme, based on the recent LoRa 2.4 GHz technology; a robust and highly tunable transmission technology. This results in a network that balances performance considerations, whilst providing confidentiality, integrity and authenticity through the use of symmetric key-based authentication and encryption scheme. A performance analysis is conducted using a practical test bench to determine the impact that the proposed security mechanisms have on the LoRa network. The secure architecture proposed by this study has a minimal impact on the transmission time of a packet compared to a network with no security measures. This additional latency does not negatively impact on the smart home user in terms of network performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8014b5c8aa484c54b754e8d650a24f142022-12-22T04:26:12ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110932129323010.1109/ACCESS.2022.32033879874752Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart HomesLuke Kane0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3851-1987Vicky Liu1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-2558Matthew McKague2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3598-7541Geoffrey R. Walker3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-9507Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaFaculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaFaculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaFaculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaThe IoT-based smart grid provides many benefits to both energy consumers and energy producers, such as advanced metering functions, improved reliability, and management. Increasingly with the rise of smart homes and smart cities, security is a concern, as data networks increasingly run parallel to power networks. Ensuring good security practices are implemented in the smart home is critical. This study proposes a Home Area Network architecture design, and secure ChaCha20-Poly1305 Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) based authentication scheme, based on the recent LoRa 2.4 GHz technology; a robust and highly tunable transmission technology. This results in a network that balances performance considerations, whilst providing confidentiality, integrity and authenticity through the use of symmetric key-based authentication and encryption scheme. A performance analysis is conducted using a practical test bench to determine the impact that the proposed security mechanisms have on the LoRa network. The secure architecture proposed by this study has a minimal impact on the transmission time of a packet compared to a network with no security measures. This additional latency does not negatively impact on the smart home user in terms of network performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874752/IoTChaCha20Poly1350authenticationkey managementhome area network |
| spellingShingle | Luke Kane Vicky Liu Matthew McKague Geoffrey R. Walker Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes IEEE Access IoT ChaCha20 Poly1350 authentication key management home area network |
| title | Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes |
| title_full | Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes |
| title_fullStr | Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes |
| title_short | Network Architecture and Authentication Scheme for LoRa 2.4 GHz Smart Homes |
| title_sort | network architecture and authentication scheme for lora 2 4 ghz smart homes |
| topic | IoT ChaCha20 Poly1350 authentication key management home area network |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874752/ |
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