IoTeWay: A Secure Framework Architecture for 6LoWPAN Based IoT Applications

Smart devices “things”, connected to the Internet, form a huge network to bring the physical systems “humans world” to the information systems “digital world”, which we call it the Internet of Things (IoT). These smart devices exist in many applications such as Smart spaces, cities, grids, health monitoring, smart Industries, car, TV, networking and big data. Although several customers have adopted the IoT applications, still its infrastructure faces major security and privacy challenges. Those challenges lie in the different communication model layers starting from the physical layer, ending up in the running application layer, and passing through the network layer. This paper presents IoTeWay, a secure framework that targets IoT applications built on top of IPv6 Low Power Networks. IoTeWay divided into three main tiers: smart devices tier, platform and infrastructure tier, and the application tier. Besides, a cloud supporting tier to serve the large-scale IoT networks. Our experimental verification, based on Smart homes application, and our theoretical analysis shows that IoTeWay provides an excess of security and offers resiliency against famous security attacks.