Tsai Wen-Chung
Department of Intelligent Production Engineering, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung City 404, Taiwan.
Sensors (Basel). 2024 Jan 28;24(3):853. doi: 10.3390/s24030853.
With the advent of 6G Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology, IoT security faces inevitable challenges due to the application requirements of Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTCs). In response, a 6G base station (gNB) and User Equipment (UE) necessitate increased capacities to handle a larger number of connections while maintaining reasonable performance during operations. To address this developmental trend and overcome associated technological hurdles, this paper proposes a hardware-accelerated and software co-designed mechanism to support streaming data transmissions and secure zero-trust inter-endpoint communications. The proposed implementations aim to offload processing efforts from micro-processors and enhance global system operation performance by hardware and software co-design in endpoint communications. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed secure mechanism based on the use of non-repeating keys and implemented in FPGA, can save 85.61%, 99.71%, and 95.68% of the micro-processor's processing time in key block generations, non-repeating checks, and data block transfers, respectively.
随着6G窄带物联网（NB-IoT）技术的出现，由于海量机器类型通信（mMTC）的应用需求，物联网安全面临不可避免的挑战。作为回应，6G基站（gNB）和用户设备（UE）需要提高容量，以便在运行期间处理更多连接，同时保持合理的性能。为了应对这一发展趋势并克服相关技术障碍，本文提出了一种硬件加速和软件协同设计的机制，以支持流数据传输和安全的零信任端点间通信。所提出的实现方案旨在减轻微处理器的处理负担，并通过端点通信中的硬件和软件协同设计提高全球系统运行性能。实验结果表明，所提出的基于使用非重复密钥并在现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）中实现的安全机制，在密钥块生成、非重复检查和数据块传输中，分别可以节省微处理器85.61%、99.71%和95.68%的处理时间。
