An Authentication Framework in ICN-Enabled Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), as a new industrial revolution, are to provide advanced intellectual foundation for next generation industrial systems. While such systems present substantial security challenges for the host-centric communication with the growing trend of sensor data streams. Information Centric Networking (ICN) architecture suggests features exploitable in ICPS applications, reducing delivery latency and promoting quality of services that applies broadly across Industrial Internet. Emerging available solutions for secure communication, however, few of them have thoroughly addressed concerns related to securing access due to the dependence on an online provider server. In this work, we propose a concrete authentication framework for ICN ICPS based on proxy signature, which guarantees authentic sensor data access only to legitimate users and does not require interaction between users. This framework would help lower the level of the complexity of the entire system and reduce the cost of authentication by leveraging edge cache. We prove the security of the proposed authentication scheme and present performance analysis to show its efficiency.