  The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Fog
computing, mobile edge computing and wireless grids has resulted in the
widespread deployment of relatively immature technology. These technologies,
which will primarily use 5G wireless communication networks, are becoming
popular because they can be deployed quickly with little infrastructure and
lends themselves to environments utilizing numerous internet connected devices
(ICD). Because of the threat of exploitation, these networks have to be
protected by a robust security architecture due to these technologies being
plagued with security problems. The authentication of smart ICDs to IoT
networks is a critical mechanism for achieving security on these new
information system platforms. This article identifies an authentication process
required for these ICDs, which will need to prove their identity to
authenticate to an IoT fog-mobile edge computing (FMEC) cloud network through a
wireless grid authentication process. The purpose of this article is to
hypothesize a generic authentication methodology for these FMEC clouds uses in
an IoT architecture. The proposed methodology, called wg-IoT, must include the
integration of Fog computing, wireless grids and mobile edge computing clouds
to create this new IoT architecture. An authentication process developed from
the resource sharing protocol (RSP) from a wireless grid is first developed and
proposed for the authentication of ICDs. The wireless grid core components must
be embedded in IoT devices or sensors depending on their capability to handle
five primary functions: management of identification [ID] and presence,
permissions management, data transferability, application-programming interface
[API] and security.
