In this paper, a generic framework for IoT device registration is proposed. Unlike existing approaches, the proposed method is designed to provide a high level of compatibility, allowing it to work well with devices from different manufacturers. Furthermore, this framework requires only some commonly available technologies (like Bluetooth or BLE) to perform, making it highly applicable to most of the current generation of smart devices available in the market. With security and user-friendliness in mind, the developed registration protocol requires less user interaction while maintaining a considerable high level of security against various types of attacks, i.e., eavesdropping, replay attacks, modification, and man-in-the-middle attack.------------------------------This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal ofInformation Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. Thisarticle should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.29(2021) (online)DOI　http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.29.381------------------------------

In this paper, a generic framework for IoT device registration is proposed. Unlike existing approaches, the proposed method is designed to provide a high level of compatibility, allowing it to work well with devices from different manufacturers. Furthermore, this framework requires only some commonly available technologies (like Bluetooth or BLE) to perform, making it highly applicable to most of the current generation of smart devices available in the market. With security and user-friendliness in mind, the developed registration protocol requires less user interaction while maintaining a considerable high level of security against various types of attacks, i.e., eavesdropping, replay attacks, modification, and man-in-the-middle attack.------------------------------This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal ofInformation Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. Thisarticle should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.29(2021) (online)DOI　http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.29.381------------------------------