Security Protocol Design for Terminal Access to Internet of Things Networks with Integrated Sensing and Communications

• Juan Zhao,
• Haibo Dai,
• Xiaolong Xu,
• Hao Yan,
• Zheng Zhang,

Vol. 20, No. 1, January 31, 2026
10.3837/tiis.2026.01.027, Download Paper (Free):

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• integrated sensing and communications
• information leakage of wireless access
• terminal scheduling
• information leakage protocol design.

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the eavesdropping capability of the sensing terminal the Internet of Things (IoT) networks with one sensing terminal and many communication terminal candidates waiting for accessing to the same IoT networks. This sensing terminal can also eavesdrop the wireless information from the surrounding communication terminals, addressing a critical gap in the existing literature. The paper employs the method of maximizing the secured throughput for any given sensing terminal with arbitrary eavesdropping capability by our proposed access protocol over these communication terminal candidates. In our proposed method, the sub-set of all the communication terminals surrounding the sensing terminal is adaptively constructed according to the eavesdropping capability with random wireless channel fading. By removing this sub-set from all the communication terminals set, all the other communication terminals are sorted in the descending order over the secured throughput objective. The first communication terminal from this sorted list is chosen to access this IoT networks. Based on these results, an algorithm is formulated to complete the whole process of communication terminals scheduling. The results reveal that the secured throughput is remarkably obtained for any given values of transmit power, number of legitimate mobile terminal candidates and corresponding distances, indicating that our designed access protocol is useful in this scenario for accessing IoT networks. The findings from this paper contribute to the substantial improvement of secured throughput, highlighting areas for future research and practical applications.

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