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A robust authentication protocol with privacy protection for wireless sensor networks

  • Xiong Li
  • , Jianwei Niu*
  • , Kim Kwang Raymond Choo
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Hunan University of Science and Technology
  • Beihang University
  • University of Texas at San Antonio

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Abstract

As a typical application of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in many fields, such as remote healthcare, to gather data of monitoring area. However, due to open nature of wireless channel and limited computing and storage resource of sensor node, how to guarantee the sensitive sensed data are only be accessed by valid user becomes an important issue. Many user authentication protocols for WSNs have been proposed to address this issue, however, previous work more or less have their own weaknesses. Recently, Gope and Hwang proposed a lightweight anonymity authentication for WSNs, and they claimed that their protocol is secure against most attacks. However, our analysis indicates that their protocol still has some design and security flaws. To address the security issue for WSNs, a user authentication protocol with privacy protection for WSNs has been proposed. The analysis and comparisons results show that the proposed protocol is a robust and security one for WSNs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRadio Frequency Identification and IoT Security - 12th International Workshop, RFIDSec 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGerhard P. Hancke, Konstantinos Markantonakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages30-44
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319620237
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event12th International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security, RFIDSec 2016 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 30 Nov 20162 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10155 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security, RFIDSec 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period30/11/162/12/16

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Key agreement
  • User anonymity
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

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