Journal Article

Security of the Internet of Things: perspectives and challenges

Qiu, Dechao, Lu, Jingwei, Vasilakos, Athanasios V., Jing, Qi, Wan, Jiafu

2014

Overview

Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a more and more important role after its showing up, it covers from traditional equipment to general household objects such as WSNs and RFID. With the great potential of IoT, there come all kinds of challenges. This paper focuses on the security problems among all other challenges. As IoT is built on the basis of the Internet, security problems of the Internet will also show up in IoT. And as IoT contains three layers: perception layer, transportation layer and application layer, this paper will analyze the security problems of each layer separately and try to find new problems and solutions. This paper also analyzes the cross-layer heterogeneous integration issues and security issues in detail and discusses the security issues of IoT as a whole and tries to find solutions to them. In the end, this paper compares security issues between IoT and traditional network, and discusses opening security issues of IoT.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Access control / Access to information / Analysis / Applied sciences / Communications Engineering / Computer Communication Networks / Computer science; control theory; systems / Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface / Data compression / Data encryption / Electrical Engineering / Engineering / Exact sciences and technology / Households / Information storage / Internet / Internet of Things / IT in Business / Memory and file management (including protection and security) / Memory organisation. Data processing / Mobile communications networks / Network security / Networks / Perception / Privacy / Radio frequency identification / Radiocommunications / Security / Security services / Sensors / Software / Studies / Telecommunications / Telecommunications and information theory / Transportation / Wireless networks