scholarly journals A secure and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks in smart city

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Xie ◽  
Keheng Li ◽  
Xiao Tan ◽  
Lidong Han ◽  
Wen Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Impersonation Attack ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Smart Healthcare

AbstractSmart city can improve the efficiency of managing assets and resources, optimize urban services and improve the quality of citizens’ life. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can solve many problems in smart city, such as smart transportation, smart healthcare and smart energy. However, security and privacy are the biggest challenges for WSN. Recently, Banerjee et al. proposed a security-enhanced authentication and key agreement scheme for WSN, but their scheme cannot resist offline password guessing attack, impersonation attack, and does not achieve session key secrecy, identity unlinkability, and perfect forward secrecy. In order to fix these flaws, a secure and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for WSN in smart city is proposed. We prove the security of the proposed protocol by using applied pi calculus-based formal verification tool ProVerif and show that it has high computational efficiency by comparison with some related schemes.

scholarly journals A Secure and Privacy Preserving Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Xie ◽  
Keheng Li ◽  
Xiao Tan ◽  
Lidong Han ◽  
Wen Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Impersonation Attack ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Smart Healthcare

Abstract Smart city can improve the efficiency of managing assets and resources, optimize urban services, and improve the quality of citizens’ life. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) can solve many problems in smart city, such as smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart energy, and so on. However, security and privacy are the biggest challenges for WSN. Recently, Banerjee et al. proposed a security enhanced authentication and key agreement scheme for WSN, but their scheme can't resist off-line password guessing attack, impersonation attack, and does not achieve session key secrecy, identity unlinkability and perfect forward secrecy. In order to fix these flaws, a secure and privacy preserving authentication protocol for WSN in smart city is proposed. We prove the security of the proposed protocol by using applied pi calculus based formal verification tool ProVerif, and show that it has high computational efficiency by comparison with some related schemes.

scholarly journals Secure Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Vehicular Communications

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3191 ◽  
Author(s):  
SungJin Yu ◽  
JoonYoung Lee ◽  
KyungKeun Lee ◽  
KiSung Park ◽  
YoungHo Park
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Internet Security ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Vehicular Communications ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Secure Authentication

With wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a driver can access various useful information for convenient driving, such as traffic congestion, emergence, vehicle accidents, and speed. However, a driver and traffic manager can be vulnerable to various attacks because such information is transmitted through a public channel. Therefore, secure mutual authentication has become an important security issue, and many authentication schemes have been proposed. In 2017, Mohit et al. proposed an authentication protocol for WSNs in vehicular communications to ensure secure mutual authentication. However, their scheme cannot resist various attacks such as impersonation and trace attacks, and their scheme cannot provide secure mutual authentication, session key security, and anonymity. In this paper, we propose a secure authentication protocol for WSNs in vehicular communications to resolve the security weaknesses of Mohit et al.’s scheme. Our authentication protocol prevents various attacks and achieves secure mutual authentication and anonymity by using dynamic parameters that are changed every session. We prove that our protocol provides secure mutual authentication by using the Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic, which is a widely accepted formal security analysis. We perform a formal security verification by using the well-known Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications tool, which shows that the proposed protocol is safe against replay and man-in-the-middle attacks. We compare the performance and security properties of our protocol with other related schemes. Overall, the proposed protocol provides better security features and a comparable computation cost. Therefore, the proposed protocol can be applied to practical WSNs-based vehicular communications.

scholarly journals Mobile Device Based Dynamic Key Management Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chin-Ling Chen ◽  
Chih-Cheng Chen ◽  
De-Kui Li
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Session Key ◽  
Dynamic Key Management ◽  
Dynamic Key

In recent years, wireless sensor network (WSN) applications have tended to transmit data hop by hop, from sensor nodes through cluster nodes to the base station. As a result, users must collect data from the base station. This study considers two different applications: hop by hop transmission of data from cluster nodes to the base station and the direct access to cluster nodes data by mobile users via mobile devices. Due to the hardware limitations of WSNs, some low-cost operations such as symmetric cryptographic algorithms and hash functions are used to implement a dynamic key management. The session key can be updated to prevent threats of attack from each communication. With these methods, the data gathered in wireless sensor networks can be more securely communicated. Moreover, the proposed scheme is analyzed and compared with related schemes. In addition, an NS2 simulation is developed in which the experimental results show that the designed communication protocol is workable.

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