Secure and Scalable IoT: An IoT Network Platform Based on Network Overlay and MAC Security

Junwon Lee, Heejo Lee

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Abstract

IoT, which is closely connected with our daily life, shows high growth in the automotive, healthcare, and retail fields. IoT security threats can cause severe problems in our lives. However, the security of the IoT network is insufficient to cope with security threats. Therefore, an attacker can use man-in-the-middle-attacks (MITM), DNS manipulation, and route tampering for eavesdropping, privacy breach, service outages and delay, power consumption, and system manipulation. Currently, VPN and data encryption is applied to protect the IoT network from these security threats. However, due to the limited resources of IoT device, the TCP/IP-based VPN and encryption are also limited. Although a lightweight IoT communication protocol such as LoWPAN is used, TCP/IP-based VPN such as IPsec, OpenVPN, and Wireguard require bandwidth, CPU/memory, and electric power at the level of general endpoint devices. In this paper, we propose a secure and scalable IoT (SSI) network platform that can prevent security threats while minimizing use of computing resources of an IoT device. SSI, which has a lower load than TCP/IP-based VPN, is a layer 2 VPN and supply data link frame encryption. L2TP and VXLAN are provided for a scalable layer 2 VPN, and the MACsec algorithm encrypts layer 2 frames. SSI shows 30% network speed improvement and 31.6% CPU usage reduction compared to IoT network applied OpenVPN.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 36th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsAudun Jøsang, Lynn Futcher, Janne Hagen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages287-301
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030781194
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event36th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2021 Jun 222021 Jun 24

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume625
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X

Conference

Conference36th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/6/2221/6/24

Keywords

  • IoT platform
  • L2TP
  • MACsec
  • Network overlay
  • Network separation
  • VXLAN

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems and Management

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