The Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) paradigm has become a central point of the 5G networks. Though the NB-IoT mechanism has progressively been incorporated in the conventional LTE networks, notably the 5G network-based NB-IoT scheme realizes certain security breaches in recent times. Hence, the need for effective authentication and data transmission scheme is much more vital for security enhancement. Conventional security schemes follow both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic techniques such as AES, ECC, DES and many other famous algorithms to assist in preventing against data security issues. All of these cryptographic techniques are inadequate to give protect against quantum attacks. This study plan to propose a secure quantum-resistant data transmission strategy and authentication for a 5G based NB-IoT scheme. The proposed method follows the implementation of data transmission strategy and access authentication concurrently for NB-IoT devices based on lattice-based attribute and fully homomorphic encryption techniques. The proposed scheme will not just minimize the network overhead but also provide robust security with privacy shielding and anti-quantum capability.
The Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) paradigm has become a central point of the 5G networks. Though the NB-IoT mechanism has progressively been incorporated in the conventional LTE networks, notably the 5G network-based NB-IoT scheme realizes certain security breaches in recent times. Hence, the need for effective authentication and data transmission scheme is much more vital for security enhancement. Conventional security schemes follow both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic techniques such as AES, ECC, DES and many other famous algorithms to assist in preventing against data security issues. All of these cryptographic techniques are inadequate to give protect against quantum attacks. This study plan to propose a secure quantum-resistant data transmission strategy and authentication for a 5G based NB-IoT scheme. The proposed method follows the implementation of data transmission strategy and access authentication concurrently for NB-IoT devices based on lattice-based attribute and fully homomorphic encryption techniques. The proposed scheme will not just minimize the network overhead but also provide robust security with privacy shielding and anti-quantum capability.
The Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) system has become an important branch of the Internet of Everything and is an indispensable part in future fifth Generation (5G) network. However, there is currently no effective access authentication scheme for the NB-IoT system in the future 5G network. According to the current 3GPP standard, NB-IoT devices still use the traditional access authentication method to perform the mutual authentication with the network, which may bring a lot of signaling and communication overheads. This problem will be more prominent when sea of NB-IoT devices simultaneously are activated in the 5G network. In this paper, we propose a quantum-resistance access authentication and data distribution scheme for massive NB-IoT devices. This scheme can implement access authentication and data transmission for a group of NB-IoT devices at the same time based on the lattice-based homomorphic encryption technology. Our scheme can not only greatly reduce the network burden, but also can achieve the strong security including privacy protection and resisting quantum attacks. Performance analysis results show that our solution has the desired efficiency.
The narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) system has become an integral part of the future fifth generation (5G) network. Although the NB-IoT system has gradually been improved in the traditional LTE network currently, the NB-IoT system does not have an effective access authentication scheme in the future 5G network. According to the current 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard, NB-IoT devices still use the traditional access authentication method to perform mutual authentication with the network, which may bring a large amount of signaling and communication overhead. This problem will be magnified in a large-scale device environment in the future 5G network. In this article, a quantum resistance access authentication and data distribution scheme is proposed for large-scale NB-IoT devices. The scheme can simultaneously implement access authentication and data transmission of a group of NB-IoT devices based on the lattice-based homomorphic encryption technology. Our scheme not only greatly reduce the network burden but also achieve strong security, including privacy protection and anti-quantum attacks. The performance analysis results show that our scheme has the ideal efficiency.
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most representative application scenarios in the 5G and 6G era. The concurrent access of massive IoT devices definitely poses enormous communication, computation, and certificate management challenges to the wireless authentication. Moreover, the emergence of quantum computing makes classical cryptography-based authentication protocols, such as 5G-AKA, more easier to be broken. Facing the challenges posed by the massive concurrent authentication and quantum attacks, this paper proposes a lattice cryptography based group authentication scheme, where lattice-based aggregate signature algorithm and identity-based encryption (IBE) are leveraged to achieve simultaneous authentication of concurrent accessed devices. The proposed authentication scheme eliminates the process of public key certificate management, greatly reducing the storage overhead of core network. Moreover, the utilization of lattice cryptography enables the resistance of quantum attacks. The proposed solution does not rely on additional security assumptions such as security channel or trusted group center, making it more flexible to be deployed in actual network scenario. Finally, formal security analysis of the proposed protocol is provided with the tool ProVerif. It is demonstrated that the proposed protocol can satisfy the goals of identity privacy, authentication, data confidentiality and forward secrecy. In addition, compared with existing advanced solutions, the outperformance of the proposed scheme in terms of computation overhead, signaling overhead, communication overhead, and security properties is validated with simulations.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and localization are two important technology enablers. An important IoT technology is the Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT), which is a 3GPP standards compliant connectivity solution. Quantum computing, another developing technological paradigm, promises novel computational opportunities, but it has also been used to compromise many cybersecurity procedures. Therefore, improved methods to mitigate such jeopardies are needed. In this research, we propose a cryptographic system that guarantees post-quantum IoT security. The ultimate value of a location-driven cryptosystem is to use geographic location as a player’s identity and credential. Position-driven cryptography using lattices is efficient and lightweight, and it can be used to protect sensitive and confidential data in many critical situations that rely heavily on exchanging confidential data. Based on our best knowledge, this research starts the study of unconditional-quantum-resistant-location-driven cryptography by using the Lattice problem for the Internet of Moving Things (IoMT) in pre-and post-quantum world. Unlike existing schemes, the proposed cryptosystem is the first secure and unrestricted position-based protocol that guards against any number of collusion attackers and against quantum attacks. It has a guaranteed authentication process, solves the problems of distributing public keys by cancelling public key infrastructure (PKI), offers secure NB-IoT without SIM cards, and resists location spoofing attacks. Furthermore, it can be generalized for any network – not just NB-IoT.
In an era where securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices within Metaverse environments is increasingly critical, existing frameworks often lack robust, quantum-resistant protection suitable for resource-constrained devices. This study aims to develop a comprehensive quantum-resistant security framework designed for IoT-enabled Metaverse applications. Our multilayered architecture incorporates Ideal Coset Lattice Cryptography (ICLC) and a Hypercomplex Multivariate Encryption Scheme (HMES) across the Device, Network, and Metaverse layers. ICLC provides lightweight, quantum-resistant encryption for devices with limited computational resources, while HMES enhances security through complex algebraic structures resistant to quantum attacks. We implement a Zero-Knowledge Proof Authentication mechanism over Hypercomplex Algebras (ZKPHA) to authenticate devices without exposing private keys. An edge computing strategy that employs convex optimization minimizes latency and computational load, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Simulations over a 260-minute period compared our framework with six state-of-the-art methods under various conditions. The results show that our framework reduces the rate of successful cyberattacks on encrypted data to 0.15%, achieves encryption and decryption times of 2.2 milliseconds per operation, and maintains 98.5% system availability during attacks.
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has connected billions of smart devices across healthcare, transportation, industrial automation, and smart home environments. While IoT has enhanced automation and data-driven decision-making, its widespread deployment has also increased the risk of cyberattacks. Conventional public-key cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) are vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks, particularly those based on Shor's algorithm. This paper proposes a Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Framework (QRCF) for secure IoT communication using lattice-based cryptography integrated with lightweight authentication and efficient key management. The framework is designed to meet the computational limitations of IoT devices while ensuring long-term confidentiality and integrity. Performance evaluation demonstrates improvements in security resilience, authentication efficiency, and communication reliability compared with traditional cryptographic approaches. The proposed framework offers a scalable and future-ready solution for protecting IoT ecosystems in the post-quantum era.