Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 1138: Novel Secure Group Data Exchange Protocol in Smart Home with Physical Layer Network Coding (Sensors)

Smart homes have been shown to be one of the most important applications of Internet of Things (IoT); however, security issues are still the main drawback to be improved, especially facing the problem of terminal power constraint and distributed network architecture. In this paper, we propose a novel secure group data exchange protocol in smart homes with physical layer approaches which retains the benefit of key sharing needless and lightweight computation. As the core technique, nested lattice physical layer network coding is conduct in each sensor node to form a summed data at a home router. With such summed data, the untrusted home router attack and external eavesdropper attack can be resistant. Performance has been analyzed for the proposed protocol in terms of time slot cost, security resistance, and secrecy capacity. Finally, simulations have been conducted to demonstrate the theoretical analysis.