Title: Game of life-based critical security key mechanism infrastructure in internet of things

Authors: A. Anandhavalli; A. Bhuvaneswari

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Cauvery College for Women (Autonomous), Trichy, Tamil Nadu, 620018, India; Affiliated to: Bharathidasan University, India ' Department of Computer Science, Cauvery College for Women (Autonomous), Trichy, Tamil Nadu, 620018, India; Affiliated to: Bharathidasan University, India

Abstract: Modern technology's blessing, the internet of things (IoT), has made remote monitoring and automation a reality. IoT devices are now the most economical option for wireless sensor networks. These gadgets were created with a specific purpose; therefore, computing power and power sources are restricted to meet that need. Due to power limitations, providing security for this type of network is a real issue. The game of life-based security key mechanism (GLSKM) technique is designed to leverage more low-level hardware bitwise operations during the key generation and exchanging phase instead of more computationally integrated energy-starving activities. This work presents two modules: the game of life-based key exchange mechanism and the random seed and iteration limit selector. Both modules are built to use simpler bitwise hardware-targeted instructions to achieve minimal power consumption without sacrificing security. The GLSKM approach also recognises the network's overall performance.

Keywords: energy efficient; internet of things; IoT; game of life; security key exchange; wireless sensor networks; WSNs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2025.143949

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2025 Vol.21 No.1, pp.44 - 69

Received: 11 May 2023
Accepted: 27 Jun 2023
Published online: 15 Jan 2025 *

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