S-CHIRP: Securing communications in lightweight peer-to-peer networks in the IoT

Although you may think of our technological world as a giant web of elegantly interconnected devices, the reality is a collection of messy overlapping networks, all communicating simultaneously on disparate infrastructural backbones. To communicate within the chaos today, specific components may be forced to share space on dedicated local networks, or, in many cases, they must rely on complex switching and routing methods to transfer information. As more devices are added to peertopeer (P2P) networks in highly specialized, lightweight, and localized environments, the security and isolation of communication within a network remains a major design challenge. By examining several communication problems in specific domain applications, a secure communication protocol, secure communication for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) with roundrobin protection (SCHIRP), is used to explore and define potential minimalistic solutions.