Identity management framework towards Internet of Things (IoT): Roadmap and key challenges

Abstract

One of the most profound changes today is the increase in mobility of portable yet powerful wireless devices capable of communicating via several different kinds of wireless radio networks of varying link-level characteristics. Requirement for identity is not adequately met in networks, especially given the emergence of ubiquitous computing devices that are mobile and use wireless communications. Addressing identity problem requires changes to the architecture for naming, addressing, and discovery. Challenges include resource discovery; ways to expose relevant privacy distinctions to users, naming and addressing that restricts precise knowledge of identity to authorized parties. This paper presents the identity management (IdM) framework for internet of things (IoT) with the study of existing systems, and addresses the key challenges. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.