Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Trusted Execution Environments to Protect Cloud/Fog-Based Internet of Things Applications

Abstract

Trusted Execution Environments have been applied to improve data security in many distinct application scenarios since they enable data processing in a separate and protected region of memory. To investigate how this technology has been applied to the different IoT scenarios, which commonly deal with specific characteristics such as device resource constraints, we carried out a systematic literature review. For this, we selected and analyzed 58 papers from different conferences and journals, identifying the main IoT solutions and scenarios in which TEE has been employed. We also gathered the mentioned TEE advantages and disadvantages as well as the suggestions for future works. This study gives a general overview of the use of TEEs for cloud/fog-based IoT applications, bringing some challenges and directions.