Cluster-Based Authentication Process in a Smart City

The widespread deployment of the Internet of Things in any smart city provides a regular flow of huge amount of data in server(s) that poses challenges for effective and efficient management to improve the quality of citizens’ life. To maintain the privacy and security of these data, a proper and secured identification and authentication process is very essential. In this paper, we propose a cluster-based identification and authentication process for the users, edge servers, and service servers, which are engaged in storing, processing, and accessing data. The proposed identification and authentication process is secured due to some codes (values), which are not possible to compute except by the concerned entities. For the proposed trust evaluation method (which actually strengthens the proposed authentication process), we consider major components and their integration in the model very carefully so that the simulation results become credible. Hence, we hope that the simulation results will be useful for the readership. As a whole, the proposed approach has potentials of being implemented in real-time applications.