A Cost Effective Identity-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things-Enabled Agriculture

Table 5

Communication overhead comparison in bits.

Scheme	Total overhead	In bits
Mehmood et al. [17]	3(q)	480
Shen et al. [18]	6(q)	960
Wu et al. [19]	5(q)	800
Wang et al. [21]	4(q)	640
Li et al. [24]	4(q)	640
Harbi et al. [25]	4(q)	640
Yuan et al. [26]	3(q)	480
Proposed scheme	3(n)	240