Rahim Asghari - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Malek- Ashtar University, Tehran, Iran.

The internet of things is an emerging paradigm that will change the way we interact with objects and computers in the future. It envisions a global network of devices interacting with each other, over the internet, to perform a useful action. Firstly, we provided the overview of the internet of things and then the relevant technologies that can help in large-scale development of internet of things, then the security issues in internet of things and its challenging. Secondly, we analyzed some of the lightweight authentication protocol in internet of things based on different techniques such as RFID authentication and continuous authentication to evaluate their vulnerability. Finally, we proposed the solution for one of RFID authentication protocol by using physically unclonable functions. In this protocol, the valid authentication time period is proposed to enhance robustness of authentication between internet of things devices and used the authentication token to authenticate the message which transmits from sensor node to the gateway and at the end the security analysis is conducted to evaluate the security strength of the proposed protocol.

Internet of Things, security, lightweight authentication protocol, RFID