A Homomorphic Network Coding Signature Scheme for Multiple Sources and its Application in IoT

Abstract

As a method for increasing throughput and improving reliability of routing, network coding has been widely used in decentralized IoT systems. When files are shared in the system, network coding signature techniques can help authenticate whether a modified packet in files is injected or not. However, in an IoT system, there are often multiple source devices each of which has its own authentication key, where existing single-source network coding signature schemes cannot work. In this paper, we study the problem of designing secure network coding signatures in the network with multiple sources and propose the multisource homomorphic network coding signature. We also give construction and prove its security.