A Mutual Authentication Based on Multi Agent System for IoT-Cloud Paradigm

Abstract

With the revolution of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT), users can access IoT services in different domain such as smart home, smart healthcare and smart factory. The connected device using sensors generates hundreds of real time communication that transfers sensitive user’s data to the cloud server. This sensitive information is transferred via an open and insecure channel. The Cloud-IoT paradigm has opened a new window of security challenges related to it. Therefore secure authentication schemes are of utmost importance to provide a secure access data and IoT services for legal users. This paper propose a secure distributed mutual authentication protocol based on our previous published scheme “Amrani et Al.”, suitable for IoT environment. Moreover we implement the proposed scheme using Multi Agent System (MAS) in JADE platform, analyze the results and compare its performance with “Hanaoui et Al.” scheme. The proposed protocol can also protect a Mobile Agent (MA) while carrying sensitive information, from IoT platform to Cloud Server.