Paper Info
Title
An Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme to Secure Fog Communications.
Abstract
Fog computing is deemed as a highly virtualized paradigm that can enable computing at the Internet of Things devices, residing in the edge of the network, for the purpose of delivering services and applications more efficiently and effectively. Since fog computing originates from and is a non-trivial extension of cloud computing, it inherits many security and privacy challenges of cloud computing, causing the extensive concerns in the research community. To enable authentic and confidential communications among a group of fog nodes, in this paper, we propose an efficient key exchange protocol based on ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) to establish secure communications among the participants. To achieve confidentiality, authentication, verifiability, and access control, we combine CP-ABE and digital signature techniques. We analyze the efficiency of our protocol in terms of security and performance. We also implement our protocol and compare it with the certificate-based scheme to illustrate its feasibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2705076
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fog computing,security,ciphertext-policy attribute based encryption (CP-ABE),cloud computing,communications security
Edge computing,Authentication,Computer science,Computer security,Attribute-based encryption,Computer network,Encryption,Digital signature,Cloud computing security,Utility computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
2169-3536
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arwa Alrawais112410.08
Abdulrahman Alhothaily21046.31
Chunqiang Hu340731.79
Xiaoshuang Xing425714.07
Xiuzhen Cheng53238210.23