Securing the Internet of Things Devices Using Pre-Distributed Keys

The paper outlines the state of the art, problems and challenges in the Internet of things (IoT) security. It investigates how the key pre-distribution algorithm of Eschenauer and Giglor designed for Distributed Sensor Networks(DSN) performs when applied on the IoT for 6LoWPAN networks. A simulation that uses the Contiki Operating System was developed in order to explore the performance of the algorithm on those devices. After an explanation of the research methodology and the details of the experiment conducted, we present the results from the experiment in comparison with the results obtained by Eschenauer & Giglor.