Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System

Security has been an important issue and concern in the smart home systems. Smart home networks consist of a wide range of wired or wireless devices, there is possibility that illegal access to some restricted data or devices may happen. Password-based authentication is widely used to identify a...

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Main Authors: Joseph, A., David Bong, Boon Liang, Dayang Azra, Awang Mat
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Language:English
Published: WASET 2009
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description Security has been an important issue and concern in the smart home systems. Smart home networks consist of a wide range of wired or wireless devices, there is possibility that illegal access to some restricted data or devices may happen. Password-based authentication is widely used to identify authorize users, because this method is cheap, easy and quite accurate. In this paper, a neural network is trained to store the passwords instead of using verification table. This method is useful in solving security problems that happened in some authentication system. The conventional way to train the network using Backpropagation (BPN) requires a long training time. Hence, a faster training algorithm, Resilient Backpropagation (RPROP) is embedded to the MLPs Neural Network to accelerate the training process. For the Data Part, 200 sets of UserID and Passwords were created and encoded into binary as the input. The simulation had been carried out to evaluate the performance for different number of hidden neurons and combination of transfer functions. Mean Square Error (MSE), training time and number of epochs are used to determine the network performance. From the results obtained, using Tansig and Purelin in hidden and output layer and 250 hidden neurons gave the better performance. As a result, a password-based user authentication system for smart home by using neural network had been developed successfully.
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spelling unimas-177972024-01-30T02:47:56Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17797/ Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System Joseph, A. David Bong, Boon Liang Dayang Azra, Awang Mat TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Security has been an important issue and concern in the smart home systems. Smart home networks consist of a wide range of wired or wireless devices, there is possibility that illegal access to some restricted data or devices may happen. Password-based authentication is widely used to identify authorize users, because this method is cheap, easy and quite accurate. In this paper, a neural network is trained to store the passwords instead of using verification table. This method is useful in solving security problems that happened in some authentication system. The conventional way to train the network using Backpropagation (BPN) requires a long training time. Hence, a faster training algorithm, Resilient Backpropagation (RPROP) is embedded to the MLPs Neural Network to accelerate the training process. For the Data Part, 200 sets of UserID and Passwords were created and encoded into binary as the input. The simulation had been carried out to evaluate the performance for different number of hidden neurons and combination of transfer functions. Mean Square Error (MSE), training time and number of epochs are used to determine the network performance. From the results obtained, using Tansig and Purelin in hidden and output layer and 250 hidden neurons gave the better performance. As a result, a password-based user authentication system for smart home by using neural network had been developed successfully. WASET 2009 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17797/1/Application%20of%20Neural%20Network%20in%20User%20authentication%20%28abstract%29.pdf Joseph, A. and David Bong, Boon Liang and Dayang Azra, Awang Mat (2009) Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System. International Science Index, Computer and Information Engineering, 3 (5). ISSN 2409-0441 https://waset.org/Publication/application-of-neural-network-in-user-authentication-for-smart-home-system/9242
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Joseph, A.
David Bong, Boon Liang
Dayang Azra, Awang Mat
Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title_full Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title_fullStr Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title_full_unstemmed Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title_short Application of Neural Network in User Authentication for Smart Home System
title_sort application of neural network in user authentication for smart home system
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17797/1/Application%20of%20Neural%20Network%20in%20User%20authentication%20%28abstract%29.pdf