Towards An Efficient Key Management and Authentication Strategy for Combined Fog-to-Cloud Continuum Systems
| Main Authors: | Sarang Kahvazadeh, Xavi Masip Bruin, Rodrigo Díaz, Eva Marín Tordera, Alejandro Jurnet, Jordi García |
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| Format: | Proceeding eJournal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3577661 |
Daftar Isi:
- Fog-to-cloud systems have emerged as a novel concept intended to improve service performance by considering fog and cloud resources in a coordinated way. In such a heterogeneous scenario, security provisioning becomes necessary, hence novel security solutions must be designed to handle the highly distributed fog-to-cloud nature. In the security area, key distribution and authentication are referred to as two critical pillars for a successful security deployment. Unfortunately, traditional centralized key distribution and authentication approaches do not meet the particularities brought by a Fog-to-cloud system due to its distributed nature. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed key management and authentication (DKMA) strategy to make Fog-to-cloud systems as secure as possible. The paper ends up presenting some results assessing the benefits of the proposed strategy in terms of traffic and delay reduction.