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Secure and Lightweight Firmware Over-the-Air Update Mechanism for Internet of Things

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates secure and lightweight firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update mechanisms for remote device management and timely mitigation of security vulnerabilities. This study introduces an FOTA update method to mitigate man-in-the-middle attacks in resource-constrained environments. The proposed method minimizes firmware file size and encryption overhead through a dual-XOR operation and DEFLATE compression, while enhancing security via multiple transmission channels. It improves performance in terms of latency, memory usage, and power consumption but also maintains security against brute-force attacks during MITM attacks.
Source: Electronics
Authors: Chae-Yeon Park, Sun-Jin Lee, Il-Gu Lee
Language: English
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,896
OpenAlex ID: W4409439357
FWCI: 5.244
Cites: 19
Cited by: 12
Related to: 10