ElGamal encryption

Cryptography

Public-key cryptography

Computer network

Structural engineering

Data compression

Algorithm

The Internet

World Wide Web

Engineering

Encryption

Elliptic curve cryptography

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

Denial-of-service attack

Computer science

Lossless compression

Computer security

Node (physics)

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Due to the abundant marine resources, smart ocean has attracted much attention of the government, industry, and academy. The Internet-of-Things (IoT) architectures for smart ocean have been proposed to collect various of data from the ocean, thereby assisting environmental protection, military reconnaissance, and so on. However, few researchers have paid attention to the security and privacy issues of data collection and transmission. In this article, for the unreliable underwater environment, we present a secure, efficient, and complete data collection, and transmission and storage scheme for IoT in smart ocean. Especially, to prolong the lifetime of the underwater node, two novel data compression algorithms [lossy data compression algorithm (LCA) and lossless data compression algorithm (NLCA)] are also proposed. Moreover, due to the vulnerability of underwater nodes, we also propose a corresponding IoT framework and data collection pattern to resist the single point failure attack. Besides, to guarantee the confidentiality, reliability, and integrity of transmitting data, Elliptic Curve-ElGamal (EC-ElGamal) and elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) are employed. The consensus algorithm and blacklisting mechanism are also employed to detect and address failure or malicious nodes. Finally, the security analysis demonstrates that our scheme is able to resist many typical attacks for underwater nodes, such as manipulation attacks, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, malicious node injection attacks, and so on. Additionally, relevant experimental results show that the scheme is feasibility and efficiency.

Secure and Efficient Data Collection and Storage of IoT in Smart Ocean