Implementation and Performance Analysis of IDEA in IoT-Based Smart Home Networks

The owners of state-of-the-art residential villas always thrive for feature-rich connected devices to secure personal dwellings to ensure that they are always safely connected with house surroundings and appliances. Despite the luxury of connectedness, smart home devices lead to the risk of data security and several types of security attacks. The advent of IoT has revolutionized the way smart homes function and are secured.[1]. Vulnerable local networks, weak IoT devices and unencrypted data communication between the sensors pose threats to SHNs. Though the various levels of protocols provide necessary security features for IoT -based home networks, the data communication path between the sensors and the gateways at the smart homes is vulnerable and is open to various types of attacks. Therefore, in this paper, we successfully implemented Light Weight Cryptography Algorithm IDEA in Smart Home Networks and analysed the performance of the network.