An AODV Based Multifactor Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a type of wireless network that is fast getting a lot of attention in scientific and industrial applications, and it is a network of decentralized autonomous standalone sensor devices. However, WSN is easily prone to malicious attacks as anyone can access the server through the node without a proper security authentication. In this paper, we proposed a secure AODV based multi-factor authentication scheme for WSN to mitigate physical attack, offline guessing attack and replay attack. Our proposed scheme is preferred to keep the scheme lightweight while providing enough security that requires smart card, user identity, password, and OTP. Our proposed scheme has relatively lower computational cost with a total of 10Th than the other compared schemes except for Adil et al.’s scheme. However, we have around 8288 bits of authentication overhead due to the nature of packet and the addition of factors. Hence, our scheme is outperformed from computational cost perspective, but the scheme is slightly higher on authentication overhead perspective. In the future, multiple device authentication, implementation of biometric feature can be added to improve the scheme.

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Figment Authentication Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Security Technology, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-17610-4_24 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 220-223

Author(s):

N. Ambika ◽

G. T. Raju

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Network ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Authentication Scheme ◽

Wireless Sensor

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Mitigating Replay Attack in Wireless Sensor Network Through Assortment of Packets

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics ◽

10.1007/978-981-10-2471-9_22 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 221-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vandana Sharma ◽

Muzzammil Hussain

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Network ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Replay Attack

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Wireless sensor network and their industrial applications

2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) ◽

10.1109/icit.2016.7475059 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Network ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Industrial Applications ◽

Wireless Sensor

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A Robust User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network

10.32920/ryerson.14664549 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

M. Zulfiker Ali

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Network ◽

Sensor Network ◽

Network Architecture ◽

User Authentication ◽

Mutual Authentication ◽

Authentication Scheme ◽

Security Requirements ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Second Phase ◽

Functional Requirements

The primary requirements of a secure Wireless Sensor Network architecture are confidentiality, integrity and authentication of users and other participating entities. User Authentication for wireless sensor networks is a fundamental and important issue in designing dependable and secure systems. In this thesis, we have outlined the security model, functional requirements, assumptions and network setup for an authentication scheme in the first phase. Keeping in mind the security requirements as well as the flaws of past authentication schemes, we propose a robust user authentication method that inherits user anonymity, mutual authentication and password changing functionality of previous password-based schemes and improves security by resisting gateway bypass and replay attack, and many logged in user with the same ID threat. Our scheme is a variant of strong password based schemes that does not require strict network synchronization. In the second phase of the thesis, we have analysed our authentication scheme from the perspective of security issues and functional requirements. The proposed scheme is modelled in SystemC. It is evaluated in different attack scenarios. The authentication latency, memory and functional requirements, and computational overhead are the metrics used to evaluate the scheme. The effect of multiple users on authentication latency in our scheme is also studied. Some of the past representative schemes have also been modelled and evaluated in the same environment. A detailed comparison of over-head cost, authentication latency and security features are provided in this thesis. It is verified and confirmed by modeling that our scheme provides enhanced security without adding extra computation at the sensor node.

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