Secure Framework for Future Smart City

Abstract

With the recent advancements in the information and communication technologies, large number of devices are connecting to the Internet, hence large volumes of data in different formats and from different sources are generating. Consequently, on one hand dynamic and heterogeneous data sharing and management, in the ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT), where every smart object is connected to Internet, presents new research challenges. On the other hand, citizen privacy preserving is another challenge, because he/she has to send his/her information to a service provider, to obtain the required information. This information is sensitive since it can reveal information about an individual. An attacker or a malicious service provider can utilize this sensitive information for their own business or something else. This paper presents a Secure Framework for Future Smart City (SEFSCITY), for better city living and governance, based on Cloud Computing IoT and Distributed Computing. We first present the architecture of SEFSCITY, which is based on Multi-Cloud and Cloud Federation approach; then we propose a security protocol for our framework. In our security model, we use Zero-Knowledge Protocol based on Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem. Finally, we validate our architecture by conducting several scenarios that we have implemented using Cloud Analyst tool. The results show that in all scenarios, the cost infrastructure remains the same for the cloud customer, and our approach is benefic for the cloud provider in term of revenues and data processing time.