CICS: Cloud–Internet Communication Security Framework for the Internet of Smart Devices

CICS: Cloud–Internet Communication Security Framework for Internet of Smart Devices
CICS: Cloud–Internet Communication Security
Framework for the Internet of Smart Devices
Tanweer Alam ()
, Mohamed Benaida
Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi
Arabia
tanweer03@iu.edu.sa,md.benaida@gmail.com
How to cite this article?
Tanweer Alam. Mohamed Benaida. "CICS: Cloud–Internet
Communication Security Framework for the Internet of Smart Devices.",
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM). Vol
12(6). 2018. DOI: 10.3991/ijim.v12i6.6776
Abstract— The internet of smart devices is a network of intelligent gadgets
with sensors, programs, Wi-Fi and communication network connections. These
devices store the data in cloud and process data outside the device using the
proposed Cloud-Internet communication framework. These devices can
communicate with other devices using the proposed framework. However, there
are many challenges for communication security among the internet of smart
devices. The Cloud can store the device data with security, reliability, privacy
and service availability. The communication Security has been raised as one of
the most critical issues of cloud computing where resolving such an issue would
result in a constant growth in the use and popularity of cloud computing. Our
purpose of this study is to create a framework for providing the communication
security among smart devices network for the internet of things using cloud
computing. Our main contribution links a new study for providing
communication security for the internet of smart devices using the cloud-Internet
framework. This study can be helpful for communication security problem in the
framework of the Internet of Things. The proposed study generates a new
framework for solving the issue of communication security among internet of
smart devices.
Keywords— Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Communication Security,
Smart Devices, Wireless Communications.
1 Introduction
The Internet of things (IoT) is growing exponentially in the area of
telecommunication. It is expected that by 2020, the development of the internet of smart
devices connected together exponentially with 50 billion smart devices [1]. This
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development will not depend on mankind’s population, but the reality that the units we
utilize consistently [2]. The reality of interconnected things is cooperating man to
machines and machine to another machine. They will be talking with each other.
However, monitoring and tracking of the movable device are one of the most
comprehensive issues [3]. This evolutionary paradigm enables its users to deploy a
connection to a network of computing resources in an effortless fashion, where users
can rapidly scale up or down their demands with trivial interaction from the service
provider. According to the study in the last few years, the smart device technologies
are becoming popular. It is exploring very fast [4]. The smart devices are able to
transmit data in a wireless network to all active devices [5]. If a smart device doesn’t
have full information for transferring the requests then it can connect the neighbor
devices and forward that request to the neighbor device. The communications security
is the most important aspect that is based on encryption and decryption key technology
to provide secure data communication among smart devices. The smart devices have
functionalities such as context-aware computing, computational powers and energy-
source independence [6]. The growth of the internet of things initially started in 2008
by connecting the physical objects to the internet. The physical objects are connected
with a smart database that has a collection of smart data [7]. The framework has the
image recognition technology for identifying the physical object, buildings, people,
logo, location etc., for business and customers. Now the internet of things is shifting
from information-based technology to operational based technology i.e., IPV4 (man to
machines) to IPV6 (machine to machines). It combines sensors, smart devices and
interfaces like Smart Grid. The M2M communications are the novel methodology for
transferring information among sensors-based devices [8]. The various tools are
available for M2M communication among devices [9]. In a wider respect, each of the
previous consumers has their concerns over cloud computing vulnerabilities and
challenges which might prevent them from their objectives [10, 11].

Fig. 1: Internet of Smart Devices
The objective of this study is to create a framework for providing the
communication security among smart devices network for the internet of things using
cloud computing. Our main contribution links a new study for providing
communication security for the internet of smart devices using cloud and internet
framework. This study can be helpful for communication security problem in the
framework of the Internet of Things. Our study will generate a new framework for
solving the issue of communication security among internet of smart devices.
This paper is organized into the sections. Section 1 is the Introduction, Section 2 is
the literature Survey, Section 3 is “Technologies contributed to the growth of the
Internet of smart devices”, section 4 is “Communication Security Challenges and
Threats”, section 5 is “Cloud-Internet Communication Security Framework” and the
last section is the conclusion.
2 Literature Survey
In 1994, Tristan Richardson et.al. were presented an article on X windows systems,
X protocol for securing the communication between client and server [12]. In the article
[13], the authors represented System Software for Ubiquitous Computing for the
integration of different kinds of network, also create a connection among the devices
in different types of network. In 2002 D. Estrin et.al. were published an article on
connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks, in this article they address the
communication in physical world using embedded technologies [14].
The cloud computing came as a consequence of continues development of
computing paradigms [15]. In 2009, Evan Welbourne et al. were published an article
on RFID-based services for the IoT [16]. In 2010, Gerd Kortuem et al. were presented
the development of a new flow-based programming paradigm for smart objects and the
Internet of Things [17]. In 2011, Ahmed Rahmati et al. were published an article on the
context-based network estimation and provide ubiquitous energy efficient wireless
connectivity [18]. In the article [19] researchers presented Wi-Fi based sensors for the
internet of things, they focused on measurement the range performance.
In May 2014, Lihong Jiang et al published an article on data storage in IoT and
integration of both structured and unstructured data [20]. In the article [21], introduced
the IoT ecosystem and key technologies to support IoT communications. In 2016,
Maria Rita Palattella et al published an article entitled “Internet of Things in the 5G
Era: Enablers, Architecture, and Business Models”, in this article they presented 5G
technologies for the IoT, by considering both the technological and standardization
aspects [22].

3 Technologies contributed to the growth of the Internet of
smart devices
There are three technologies that contributed to the internet of things growths.
i) The ubiquitous computation that has the capacity of intelligent physical
objects that execute on the computation framework.
ii) Internet Protocol (IPV6) using ubiquitous computing that covers the area of
network and support talking of machine to machine [23]. IPv4 internet has a drawback
to adding billions of smart gadgets together, but it is possible in IPv6 internet because
it enables internet of things to connect billions of smart gadgets together securely.
iii) Connection using ubiquitous computing that uses the fixed cell network or
mobility with using sensor connectivity [24].
Fig. 2: Idea behind the proposed framework
These technologies must be enhanced and progressive so that it allows the progress of
internet of smart devices including multi-sensor framework to store, computation,
analyze and process capability with smaller in size and lowest energies required [25].
The main contribution of this article is solely on the communication security viewpoint
among smart gadgets in the area of the internet of things. The security idea depends on
three main points in the designing of the internet of things architecture.
1. It is not easy to manage data getting from millions of sensors in a centralized
framework of smart devices collection.
2. It is not easy to manage and schedule network resources [26] in a large
network that can collect environment information from the centralized framework.
3. It is very hard to manage sensors that execute the same kind of data parallel
and store on the centralized framework.
Most researcher move to the growth of internet of things using the advancement of
wireless sensor technology with satellites, mobility, gadgets industrialize, computation
and storage in cloud etc. [27,28,29] this technology provide the opportunities for
reducing the operation cost and people physical work [30,31]. The distribution of

intelligent capacity is called fog computation. Fog computation is an architecture that
is designed for processing the information by smart devices to the centralized cloud
system. Computation, storage, and networking resources are the building blocks of both
the Cloud and the Fog computing [32]. Cloud computing has been regarded as one of
the most popularized computing paradigms [33]. It came likewise an outcome for
developments done past computing paradigms which incorporate parallel computing,
grid computing, disseminated computing also other computing paradigms [34,35,36].
Cloud computing gives its customers three essential administration models: SaaS, PaaS,
and IaaS [38]. Software as a service (SaaS) is the service that is mainly intended to end
users who need to use the software as a part of their daily activities [39]. Platform as a
service (PaaS) is mainly intended for application developers who need platforms to
develop their software or application. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is mainly
intended to network architects who need infrastructure capabilities [40]. Nowadays
increasing numbers of sensors and sensor networks are being connected to the Internet
and the World Wide Web [41].
4 Communication Security Challenges And Threats
The communication security challenges and threats for communicating in cloud
perspective internet of smart devices are the most important aspect. The first challenge
is Service disruption due to attacks. In recent times, external attacks can be held
responsible for major security breaches in a cloud environment. This can be illustrated
in the case of Adobe systems, where it cooperates databases were hacked and data was
stolen. It was reported that around 130 million consumer records got leaked. Therefore,
the cloud provider must step up preventive measures to diminish the severity of these
attacks. The second challenge is Denial of service attacks. It is provisioned as unique,
frequent and simple attacks. Their characteristics make them unpredictable and difficult
to be intercepted.
5 Cloud-Internet Communication Security Framework
For the most part speaking, security will be a limitless issue to take care of viewpoint
about perspective. Different gatherings included inside the cloud standard bring
different destinations. Therefore, they might differ their worries in regard to threats and
vulnerabilities in the cloud environment. Moreover, these worries might be eased or
intensified depending on the implemented deployment model. In the realism of the
internet, security has been perceived as a prominent inhibitor of embracing the cloud
paradigm. Since the cloud environment is a distributed architecture, which its resource
storage and management may lay in any place of the world, many concerns have been
raised over its vulnerabilities, security threats and challenges. The involvement of
various parties has widened these concerns based on each party perspective and
objective. It has been determined that there are three dominant parties which participate
in the cloud environment.

✓ Service providers: Their concerns may intensify over public and hybrid cloud
where issues related to unauthorized access and cyber-attacks may jeopardize
the service availability.
✓ Service consumers: Their concerns may focus on issues related to data privacy
and quality of service. Besides, their concerns regard service availability and
interoperability.
✓ Service regulators: Their concerns may focus on issues related to service.
Fig. 3: Cloud-Internet Communication security Framework
Standard violations. Thus issues related to interoperability would affect them greatly.
It is fair to say that all previously mentioned party concerns might be correlated and
associated with other parties.
In cloud computing, several deployment models can be deployed on the previously
mentioned service models. These various deployment models can be utilized based on
their distribution nature which depends on cloud service location as follows:
I. Public cloud: All services are been provided in a public environment where
consumers can access a pool of resources which are managed by a hosted
organization. Due to its nature, this type of environment may raise critical
concerns over security problems.
II. Private cloud: Services are been provided by a third party vendor which separates
it from public access. Consequently, it is safer than the previous development
model due to the fact that it prevents unauthorized access.
III. Community cloud: Services are been provided to a specified community where all
members have an equal right of accessing the shared resources.

IV. Hybrid cloud: Services are provided as combustion of more than one cloud (public
cloud, private cloud, and community cloud). It could inherit any type of
vulnerability or risk that resides within the previously mentioned parties.
There are various initiatives which try to establish standardization projects. Broadly
speaking, these projects primarily empathized on standardizing four prominent cloud
interoperability use cases which are the following:
I. User authentication: it can be standardized according to OpenID or protocols
depend on Oath.
II. Workload migration: it can be standardized based on VM image file formats.
III. Data migration: it can be standardized by addressing APIs differences.
IV. Workload management: it can be standardized by unifying workload
management standards across various providers.
The proposed framework has four layers, the first is the presentation layer acts on
the smart device side. The second layer is the communication security layer that
provides communication security in the network using encryption/decryption
management. The third layer is the ubiquitous network layer. The fourth layer is the
Cloud layer. This layer is the key layer in this framework. The cloud collects the
encrypted data, process data, and store in the cloud. The information can be sent to the
smart device in encrypted form.
Fig. 4: Layers in the proposed framework
The proposed framework shows the framework elements with their functionality.
This is a complex architecture. So that it is divided into several parts in each layer. The
communication security layer is responsible to collect and aggregate data with
encryption techniques also identify, classify, filter and process the data packets and
send to the ubiquitous network. The packets are securely transferred to the cloud. The
cloud received the light weighted packets in an encrypted format. It processes the
packets and store in a cloud. This layer uses the programming with intelligence to
process data packets received from the smart devices that are on the border of the

coverage area. The communication security layer in the proposed framework applies
the algorithm to monitor the attacks using deep learning or Petri Nets or artificial
intelligence models. This layer also has the latest viruses or attacks information. It can
be updated online automatically to adopt the new threat definitions.
6 Conclusion
The communication security threats and challenges that rely on behind the lure of
cloud computing. Since the cloud paradigm is based on a distributed architecture, then
it is inherited some risks and vulnerabilities that are related to distributed paradigms.
However, several of these risks have intensified over the cloud paradigm. In this article,
the issues related to the causes of information unavailability been discussed. To
overcome it, a cloud provider and consumers should agree on the service level
agreement. While the causes of interoperability have been discussed. The article
primarily focused on communication security, one of these threats related to service
disruption which can result due to attacks such as denial of service attacks, service
hijackings, and VM-level attacks. We analyzed the security requirements and
challenges for communication security among all smart devices in cloud computing
environment. The fundamental functions of this study have been introduced to the
ubiquitous network layer. The study showed successfully and expectation for a future
scope in this area. The proposed framework has been presented a layered architecture
for secure communication among internet of smart devices. We explained the possible
layers and techniques used in the framework.
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