A lightweight and robust two-factor authentication scheme for personalized healthcare systems using wireless medical sensor networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 727-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Wu ◽  
Xiong Li ◽  
Arun Kumar Sangaiah ◽  
Lili Xu ◽  
Saru Kumari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Personalized Healthcare ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks

scholarly journals An Efficient and Secure Certificateless Authentication Protocol for Healthcare System on Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Guo ◽  
Qiaoyan Wen ◽  
Zhengping Jin ◽  
Hua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Bilinear Pairing ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Performance Evaluations ◽  
Physiological Signals ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Secure Authentication ◽  
Certificateless Authentication

Sensor networks have opened up new opportunities in healthcare systems, which can transmit patient’s condition to health professional’s hand-held devices in time. The patient’s physiological signals are very sensitive and the networks are extremely vulnerable to many attacks. It must be ensured that patient’s privacy is not exposed to unauthorized entities. Therefore, the control of access to healthcare systems has become a crucial challenge. An efficient and secure authentication protocol will thus be needed in wireless medical sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a certificateless authentication scheme without bilinear pairing while providing patient anonymity. Compared with other related protocols, the proposed scheme needs less computation and communication cost and preserves stronger security. Our performance evaluations show that this protocol is more practical for healthcare system in wireless medical sensor networks.

scholarly journals Provably Secure Three-Factor-Based Mutual Authentication Scheme with PUF for Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 6039
Author(s):  
DeokKyu Kwon ◽  
YoHan Park ◽  
YoungHo Park
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Internet Security ◽  
Authentication Scheme ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Medical Sensor Networks ◽  
Three Factor

Wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs) are used in remote medical service environments to provide patients with convenient healthcare services. In a WMSN environment, patients wear a device that collects their health information and transmits the information via a gateway. Then, doctors make a diagnosis regarding the patient, utilizing the health information. However, this information can be vulnerable to various security attacks because the information is exchanged via an insecure channel. Therefore, a secure authentication scheme is necessary for WMSNs. In 2021, Masud et al. proposed a lightweight and anonymity-preserving user authentication scheme for healthcare environments. We discover that Masud et al.’s scheme is insecure against offline password guessing, user impersonation, and privileged insider attacks. Furthermore, we find that Masud et al.’s scheme cannot ensure user anonymity. To address the security vulnerabilities of Masud et al.’s scheme, we propose a three-factor-based mutual authentication scheme with a physical unclonable function (PUF). The proposed scheme is secure against various security attacks and provides anonymity, perfect forward secrecy, and mutual authentication utilizing biometrics and PUF. To prove the security features of our scheme, we analyze the scheme using informal analysis, Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic, the Real-or-Random (RoR) model, and Automated Verification of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) simulation. Furthermore, we estimate our scheme’s security features, computation costs, communication costs, and energy consumption compared with the other related schemes. Consequently, we demonstrate that our scheme is suitable for WMSNs.

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