A Hierarchical Encryption and Key Management Scheme for Layered Access Control on H.264/SVC Bitstream in the Internet of Things

Terminals with diverse technological specifications, heterogeneous network environment, and personalized user requirements raise new challenges to streaming media services. Solutions such as the newly standardized H.264/SVC (scalable video coding; designed to compress original video bitstream into a...

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Published in:IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 7; no. 9; pp. 8932 - 8942
Main Authors: Xu, Cheng, Ren, Wei, Yu, Linchen, Zhu, Tianqing, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.09.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Access control
Algorithms
Complexity
Cryptography
Encryption
H.264/SVC
hierarchical key management
Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT)
layered access control
layered encryption
Multilayers
Security
Security management
Static VAr compensators
Streaming media
Surveillance
Surveillance systems
User requirements
Video coding
Video compression
Video data
Video on demand
Videoconferencing
ISSN:2327-4662, 2327-4662
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Summary:Terminals with diverse technological specifications, heterogeneous network environment, and personalized user requirements raise new challenges to streaming media services. Solutions such as the newly standardized H.264/SVC (scalable video coding; designed to compress original video bitstream into a multilayer video stream according to requirements) have been proposed. With the pervasive application of SVC in applications, such as video on demand, video conferencing, and video surveillance in the Internet of Things (IoT), there has been increased scrutiny on security of H.264/SVC. In this article, we propose a bitstream-oriented layered encryption scheme for SVC bitstream. According to the multilayer bit code structure of SVC, the bitstream is separated and encrypted, respectively, by rearranging the network abstraction layer (NAL) unit of SVC bitstream. This provides hierarchical protection for the multilayer characteristic of SVC. In order to provide sufficient security, as well as achieving improved computational efficiency, we use different cryptographic algorithms for the base layer and enhancement layers according to its requirements. The base layer adopts off-the-shelf high-security encryption algorithms, such as block cipher, to ensure security. Each enhancement layer is encrypted with a different key through the stream cipher with low computational complexity, providing layered control of the video. Furthermore, we propose a hierarchical key management scheme to implement layered access control according to the principle of hierarchical deterministic wallet (H-D wallet). Our scheme can be applied to the user-level distinction in video on demand and video surveillance systems in IoT. The analysis and experiments indicate that the proposed scheme achieves a high-security level, yet incurs reasonably low compression cost and computational complexity.
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ISSN:2327-4662
2327-4662
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2020.2997725