Iot Based Authentication And Key Establishment Protocol For Modern Agriculture

Abstract

Agriculture has been the source of raw food material and a major source of economic activity in many countries. The increase in demand for food necessitates innovative ideas to be infused into the traditional agricultural practices. Agriculture productivity can be vastly improved by the use of latest technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks which have variety of application in agriculture field such as agriculture monitoring and control, food supply chain tracking etc., The increase in d eployment of sensors results in increase in communication between the various entities in the environment and it becomes important to secure the data being communicated. Authentication protocol is one of the security mechanism to protect the communications. Moreover, the constrains in wireless sensors such as limited computation capacity and limited power source makes it essential to design authentication protocols that are both secure as well as lightweight. In this paper we have proposed an authentication scheme based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography. We also presented a comparative analysis of security features as well as performance metrics.