Identity Identification and Management in the Internet
of Things
Zina Houhamdi1
and Belkacem Athamena2
1Software Engineering Department, College of
Engineering, Al Ain University, UAE
2Business
Administration Department, College of Business, Al Ain University, UAE
Abstract: Henceforth, users agreed on the
necessity of continuous Internet connection independently of the place, the
manner, and the time. Nowadays, several elite services are accessible by people
over the Internet of Things (IoT), which is a heterogeneous network defined by machine-to-machine
communication. Despite the fact that the devices are used to establish the
communication, the users can be considered as the actual producers of input
data and consumers of the output data. Consequently, the users should be viewed
as a smart object in IoT; therefore, user identification, authentication,
authorization are required. However, the user identification process is too
complicated because the users are worried to share their confidential and
private data. on the other hand, this private data should be used by some of their
devices. Accordingly, an equitable mechanism to identify users and manage their
identities is necessary. In addition, the user plays an extreme important role
in the establishment of rules needed for identity identification and in ensuring
the continuity of receptive services.The main purpose of this paper is to develop
a new framework for Identity Management System (IdMS) for IoT. The primary
contributions of this paper are: the proposition of a device recognition
algorithm for user identification, the proposition of a new format for the
identifier, and a theoretical framework for IdMS.
Keywords: Authentication, identification
algorithm, identity management, internet of things, single thing sign-on,
heterogeneous.
Received February 22, 2020; accepted June 9, 2020