Time-Specific Integrity Service in MQTT Protocol

Haotian Yan, Haibo Hu, Qingqing Ye

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Abstract

Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a classic transmission protocol in IoT scenarios, where a subscriber subscribes to the messages, and a publisher publishes the message to the broker, who then sends the message to the subscriber. In MQTT, it is essential to ensure its security in the temporal domain. On one hand, some messages are time-sensitive, so their integrity should only be valid in a determined time interval. On the other hand, when the subscriber is out of the service, his key should not be able to verify the message, which is known as subscriber validity. This paper discusses the time-specific integrity service in the MQTT protocol. To solve the problem, we propose Time-specific Signcryption (TSSC) and the Dynamic Time-specific Signature (DTSS). Furthermore, a Progressive Dynamic Time-specific Signature scheme (Pro-DTSS) is proposed to save communication costs. The theoretical and experimental results show that our proposed schemes are more efficient than the existing solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages113-125
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9798350362015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2024
Event23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2024 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 13 May 202416 May 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings - 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2024

Conference

Conference23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2024
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period13/05/2416/05/24

Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • Message Integrity
  • Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
  • Subscriber Validity
  • Timed Integrity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Instrumentation

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