Title: Protecting composite IoT server by secure secret key exchange for XEN intra virtual machines

Authors: Anil Yadav; Anurag Tripathi; Nitin Rakesh; Sujata Pandey

Addresses: Information Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, 201313, India ' Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India ' Computer Science and Engineering, ASET, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India ' Electronics and Telecom Engineering, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, 201313, India

Abstract: Challenges presented by ever increasing volumes of smart objects are huge in terms of security and privacy of data generated out of these objects. These challenges range from the usage scenario with other objects and dedicated servers which act as a middleman among various networks such as internet and wireless sensor network. In this paper, attempt has been made to highlight a simple use case of a composite server in a XEN-based virtualised system. Security threats like sniffing and spoofing are isolated and analysed with respect to a novel key transfer method between host and guest operating system in XEN-based virtualised system. In addition, secure and trust model to cater the said security threats like sniffing and spoofing is also presented. The performance of the proposed system in terms of CPU usage and network bandwidth is also shown.

Keywords: smart objects; security; privacy; XEN; IOT; sensor.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2020.104000

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2020 Vol.12 No.1, pp.53 - 69

Received: 01 Jun 2017
Accepted: 24 Feb 2018
Published online: 05 Dec 2019 *

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