Trust-based authentication scheme with user rating for low-resource devices in smart environments

  • Authors:
  • Anas El Husseini;Abdallah M'hamed;Bachar El Hassan;Mounir Mokhtari

  • Affiliations:
  • Telecom SudParis, Handicom Lab, Evry, France and LaSTRe Lab, Azm Center for Scientific Research, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon;Telecom SudParis, Handicom Lab, Evry, France;LaSTRe Lab, Azm Center for Scientific Research, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon;Telecom SudParis, Handicom Lab, Evry, France

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In smart environments, pervasive computing contributes in improving daily life activities for dependent people by providing personalized services. Nevertheless, those environments do not guarantee a satisfactory level for protecting the user privacy and ensuring the trust between communicating entities. In this study, we propose a trust evaluation model based on user past and present behavior. This model is associated with a lightweight authentication key agreement protocol (Elliptic Curve-based Simple Authentication Key Agreement). The aim is to enable the communicating entities to establish a level of trust and then succeed in a mutual authentication using a scheme suitable for low-resource devices in smart environments. An innovation in our trust model is that it uses an accurate approach to calculate trust in different situations and includes a human-based feature for trust feedback, which is user rating. Finally, we tested and implemented our scheme on Android mobile phones in a smart environment dedicated for handicapped people.