Simulation-Based Performance Validation of Homomorphic Encryption Algorithms in the Internet of Things

Johannes Kölsch, Christopher Heinz, Axel Ratzke and Christoph Grimm
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Johannes Kölsch: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems, TU Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christopher Heinz: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems, TU Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Axel Ratzke: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems, TU Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christoph Grimm: Design of Cyber-Physical Systems, TU Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Future Internet, 2019, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-24

Abstract: IoT systems consist of Hardware/Software systems (e.g., sensors) that are embedded in a physical world, networked and that interact with complex software platforms. The validation of such systems is a challenge and currently mostly done by prototypes. This paper presents the virtual environment for simulation, emulation and validation of an IoT platform and its semantic model in real life scenarios. It is based on a decentralized, bottom up approach that offers interoperability of IoT devices and the value-added services they want to use across different domains. The framework is demonstrated by a comprehensive case study. The example consists of the complete IoT “Smart Energy” use case with focus on data privacy by homomorphic encryption. The performance of the network is compared while using partially homomorphic encryption, fully homomorphic encryption and no encryption at all.As a major result, we found that our framework is capable of simulating big IoT networks and the overhead introduced by homomorphic encryption is feasible for VICINITY.

Keywords: discrete event simulation; IoT; homomorphic encryption; smart grid; validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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