An Efficient and Adaptive Mutual Authentication Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network-Based Applications

Sensors

Pardeep Kumar²  Mika Ylianttila²  Andrei Gurtov¹  Sang-Gon Lee³ 

[1] Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, P.O. Box 15600, Aalto 00076, Finland; E-Mail:;Centre for Wireless Communication, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, FI 90014, Finland; E-Mail:;Department of Ubiquitous-IT, Dongseo University, San 69-1, Jurye-2-Dong, Sasang-Gu, Busan 617-716, South Korea; E-Mails:

关键词: security;    mutual authentication;    key establishment;    node privacy;    wireless sensor networks;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s140202732

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Robust security is highly coveted in real wireless sensor network (WSN) applications since wireless sensors' sense critical data from the application environment. This article presents an efficient and adaptive mutual authentication framework that suits real heterogeneous WSN-based applications (such as smart homes, industrial environments, smart grids, and healthcare monitoring). The proposed framework offers: (i) key initialization; (ii) secure network (cluster) formation (i.e., mutual authentication and dynamic key establishment); (iii) key revocation; and (iv) new node addition into the network. The correctness of the proposed scheme is formally verified. An extensive analysis shows the proposed scheme coupled with message confidentiality, mutual authentication and dynamic session key establishment, node privacy, and message freshness. Moreover, the preliminary study also reveals the proposed framework is secure against popular types of attacks, such as impersonation attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, replay attacks, and information-leakage attacks. As a result, we believe the proposed framework achieves efficiency at reasonable computation and communication costs and it can be a safeguard to real heterogeneous WSN applications.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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