A chaos-based authentication and key management scheme for M2M communication

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication is an emerging technology that allows dynamic configuration of networks connecting many heterogeneous devices. Machines are used to assess and monitor the environment conditions and exchange information in an autonomous fashion. In many critical applications, machines are located in hazardous and even hostile environments, which facilitate security attacks and manipulation by adversary parties. This paper proposes a security architecture for M2M communication networks that can ensure mutual authentication and key management based on RFID and chaotic encryption techniques. This scheme allows dynamic sharing of different kinds of keys intended to secure unicast and multicast traffics whilst meeting the scalability requirement of the M2M communication. In addition, security analysis and simulation work, show that it ensures efficiency in terms of communication overhead, memory requirement, and energy consumption.