Security and resilience for smart devices and applications
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Security and resilience for smart devices and applications Damien Sauveron1*, Konstantinos Markantonakis2 and Christos Verikoukis3 Abstract Recent advances in development of wireless communication technologies and embedded computing systems led us into the area of the next generation wireless networks and smart devices. In this context, it is widely argued that security has become a primary concern, in order to ensure dependable, secure communications and services to the end user. There are many open questions for these challenging issues such as security of protocols and applications, secure architecture, frameworks and methodologies for next generation wireless networks and respective smart devices. This exciting special issue has received 78 submissions that covered all topics of security and resilience for smart devices and wireless networks. After a long, rigorous and highly competitive review process, only 20 papers have been accepted for publications. These papers are categorised in two groups, one related to smart device security and one related to wireless networks. The first group of 7 papers describes various research works related to smart devices. The first paper, ‘A secure and robust connectivity architecture for smart devices and applications’ by Shon et al., presents a novel connectivity architecture using RF4CE-based wireless zeroconfiguration and enhanced key agreement approach which has been analysed further through mobile devices and a prototype hardware (H/W). The second and third papers are based on how SIM cards can be used to enhance the security of two different systems. Indeed, the second paper, ‘A USIM-based uniform access authentication framework in mobile communication’ by Li et al., proposes a uniform access authentication framework based on the EAP authentication protocol in order to add a media-independent authentication layer in USIM, along with a key adaptation layer (for terminals) which enables to meet the specific requirements of various communication modules. In the third paper, ‘CS-DRM: a cloud-based SIM DRM scheme for mobile internet’, Wang et al. introduce a SIM card into a Digital Rights * Correspondence: [email protected] 1 University of Limoges, XLIM UMR CNRS, Limoges 87060, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Management (DRM) system to both reduce the cost of the servers in a DRM system when the number of users scales up and in turn provide higher security. The fourth and fifth papers relate to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. In the fourth paper, ‘Who counterfeited my Viagra?’ Probabilistic item removal detection via RFID tag cooperation’, Conti et al. provide a set of probabilistic protocols that detect the absence of a RFID tag from a system composed of a set of tags and a reader. In the fifth paper, ‘A salient missing link in RFID security protocols’, Erguler et al. demonstrate how timing attacks can be achieved on some well-known lightweight RFID security protocols. The aims
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