An enhanced three factor based authentication protocol using wireless medical sensor networks for healthcare monitoring

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifaqat Ali ◽  
Arup Kumar Pal ◽  
Saru Kumari ◽  
Arun Kumar Sangaiah ◽  
Xiong Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Three Factor

A Secure Remote User Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Monitoring Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Chandrakar
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Remote User Authentication ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Remote User

The wireless medical sensor networks WMSN play a crucial role in healthcare monitoring remotely. In remote healthcare monitoring, the sensor nodes are deployed in patient's body for collecting physiological data and transmit these data over an insecure channel. The patient's health information is highly sensitive and important. Any malicious modification in physiological data will make wrong diagnoses and harm the patient health. Therefore, privacy, data security, and user authentication are extremely important for accessing patient's real-time heath information over an insecure channel. In this regard, this article proposes a secure and robust two-factor based remote user authentication protocol for healthcare monitoring. The authentication proof has done with the help of BAN logic, which ensures that the proposed scheme provides mutual authentication and session key agreement securely. The informal security verification proves that the developed protocol is secure from various security attacks. The simulation of the proposed scheme has been done using AVISPA tool, whose simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme is secure from active and passive attacks. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed protocol is efficient in terms of security features, computation cost, communication cost, and execution time.

A Secure Remote User Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Monitoring Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 549-572
Author(s):  
Preeti Chandrakar
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Remote User Authentication ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Remote User

The wireless medical sensor networks WMSN play a crucial role in healthcare monitoring remotely. In remote healthcare monitoring, the sensor nodes are deployed in patient's body for collecting physiological data and transmit these data over an insecure channel. The patient's health information is highly sensitive and important. Any malicious modification in physiological data will make wrong diagnoses and harm the patient health. Therefore, privacy, data security, and user authentication are extremely important for accessing patient's real-time heath information over an insecure channel. In this regard, this article proposes a secure and robust two-factor based remote user authentication protocol for healthcare monitoring. The authentication proof has done with the help of BAN logic, which ensures that the proposed scheme provides mutual authentication and session key agreement securely. The informal security verification proves that the developed protocol is secure from various security attacks. The simulation of the proposed scheme has been done using AVISPA tool, whose simulation results confirm that the proposed scheme is secure from active and passive attacks. Performance evaluation shows that the proposed protocol is efficient in terms of security features, computation cost, communication cost, and execution time.

scholarly journals Securing Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks: Breaking and Fixing a Three-Factor Authentication Protocol

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Aghili ◽  
Hamid Mala ◽  
Pedro Peris-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Network Security ◽  
Wireless Sensor Network Security ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Three Factor

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) are employed in many real-time applications, such as Internet of sensors (IoS), Internet of vehicles (IoV), healthcare monitoring, and so on. As wireless sensor nodes have constrained computing, storage and communication capabilities, designing energy-efficient authentication protocols is a very important issue in wireless sensor network security. Recently, Amin et al. presented an untraceable and anonymous three-factor authentication (3FA) scheme for HWSNs and argued that their protocol is efficient and can withstand the common security threats in this sort of networks. In this article, we show how their protocol is not immune to user impersonation, de-synchronization and traceability attacks. In addition, an adversary can disclose session key under the typical assumption that sensors are not tamper-resistant. To overcome these drawbacks, we improve the Amin et al.’s protocol. First, we informally show that our improved scheme is secure against the most common attacks in HWSNs in which the attacks against Amin et al.’s protocol are part of them. Moreover, we verify formally our proposed protocol using the BAN logic. Compared with the Amin et al.’s scheme, the proposed protocol is both more efficient and more secure to be employed which renders the proposal suitable for HWSN networks.

scholarly journals A Provably Secure Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tsu-Yang Wu ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Zhiyuan Lee ◽  
Shu-Chuan Chu ◽  
Saru Kumari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Computational Overhead ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Three Factor

The wireless sensor network is a network composed of sensor nodes self-organizing through the application of wireless communication technology. The application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires high security, but the transmission of sensitive data may be exposed to the adversary. Therefore, to guarantee the security of information transmission, researchers propose numerous security authentication protocols. Recently, Wu et al. proposed a new three-factor authentication protocol for WSNs. However, we find that their protocol cannot resist key compromise impersonation attacks and known session-specific temporary information attacks. Meanwhile, it also violates perfect forward secrecy and anonymity. To overcome the proposed attacks, this paper proposes an enhanced protocol in which the security is verified by the formal analysis and informal analysis, Burross-Abadii-Needham (BAN) logic, and ProVerif tools. The comparison of security and performance proves that our protocol has higher security and lower computational overhead.

scholarly journals Cryptanalysis and Security Improvement of Two Authentication Schemes for Healthcare Systems Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqing Mo ◽  
Zhongwang Hu ◽  
Yuhua Lin
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Insider Attack ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Guessing Attack ◽  
Privileged Insider Attack ◽  
Three Factor

Wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs) play an important role in collecting healthcare data of the remote patient and transmitting them to the medical professional for proper diagnosis via wireless channel. To protect the patient's healthcare data which is private-related and sensitive, some authentication schemes for healthcare systems using WMSN have been proposed to ensure the secure communication between the medical sensors and the medical professional. Since cryptanalyzing the security defects of authenticated protocols is crucial to put forward solutions and propose truly robust protocols, we scrutinize two state-of-the-art authentication protocols using WMSN for healthcare systems. Firstly, we examine Ali et al.’s enhanced three-factor based authentication protocol and show that although it provides a formal proof and a security verification, it still fails to resist offline dictionary guessing attack, desynchronization attack, and privileged insider attack and contains a serious flaw in the password change phase. Secondly, we investigate Shuai et al.’s lightweight and three-factor based authentication protocol and point out that it cannot achieve high security level as they claimed; it is actually subject to offline dictionary guessing attack and privileged insider attack, and it also has a design flaw in the password change phase. In addition, we suggest several countermeasures to thwart these security weaknesses in these two schemes for WMSN and the similar kinds.

scholarly journals Cryptanalysis and Improvement of a Privacy-Preserving Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 4625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Km Renuka ◽  
Sachin Kumar ◽  
Saru Kumari ◽  
Chien-Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Gateway Node ◽  
Three Factor

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are of prominent use in unmanned surveillance applications. This peculiar trait of WSNs is actually the underlying technology of various applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) such as smart homes, smart cities, smart shopping complexes, smart traffic, smart health, and much more. Over time, WSNs have evolved as a strong base for laying the foundations of IoT infrastructure. In order to address the scenario in which a user wants to access the real-time data directly from the sensor node in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Das recently proposed an anonymity-preserving three-factor authentication protocol. Das’s protocol is suitable for resource-constrained sensor nodes because it only uses lightweight cryptographic primitives such as hash functions and symmetric encryption schemes as building blocks. Das’s protocol is claimed to be secure against different known attacks by providing formal security proof and security verification using the Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications tool. However, we find that Das’s protocol has the following security loopholes: (1) By using a captured sensor node, an adversary can impersonate a legal user to the gateway node, impersonate other sensor nodes to deceive the user, and the adversary can also decrypt all the cipher-texts of the user; (2) the gateway node has a heavy computational cost due to user anonymity and thus the protocol is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. We overcome the shortcomings of Das’s protocol and propose an improved protocol. We also prove the security of the proposed protocol in the random oracle model. Compared with the other related protocols, the improved protocol enjoys better functionality without much enhancement in the computation and communication costs. Consequently, it is more suitable for applications in WSNs

A secure and efficient three-factor multi-gateway authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 101965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Guo ◽  
Ya Gao ◽  
Tongge Xu ◽  
Xiyong Zhang ◽  
Jianfeng Ye
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Three Factor
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