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Key-Pre Distribution for the Internet of Things Challenges, Threats and Recommendations

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The Internet of Things is the next evolution of the Internet which will substantially affect human life. IoT is important because it is the first of its kind that is propelling an evolution of the Internet and smart environment; It is clear that secure communication between IoT devices is essential and the threats and risks for having an insecure IoT are a lot bigger than for conventional Internet connected devices. The motivation behind this chapter is to set variables needed to investigate the performance of both the probabilistic scheme or the deterministic scheme approaches and to find a reliable and efficient mechanism for nodes within the IoT and to establish trust by securing end-to-end communication by having a certain pre distributed key scheme that will enable such communication by the use of a Key Pre-distribution scheme KPS.

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El Hajjar, A. (2023). Key-Pre Distribution for the Internet of Things Challenges, Threats and Recommendations. In: Jahankhani, H., El Hajjar, A. (eds) Wireless Networks . Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33631-7_1

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