RUASN: A Robust User Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors

Pardeep Kumar¹  Amlan Jyoti Choudhury¹  Mangal Sain¹  Sang-Gon Lee² 

[1] Department of Ubiquitous-IT, Graduate School of Design & IT, Dongseo University, Sasang-Gu, Busan 617-716, Korea; E-Mails:;Division of Computer & Information Eng, Dongseo University. San 69-1, Jurye-2-Dong, Sasang-Gu, Busan 617-716, Korea; E-Mail:

关键词: wireless sensor network security;    user authentication;    user anonymity;    session key establishment;    confidentiality;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s110505020

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been considered as a potential solution for real-time monitoring applications and these WSNs have potential practical impact on next generation technology too. However, WSNs could become a threat if suitable security is not considered before the deployment and if there are any loopholes in their security, which might open the door for an attacker and hence, endanger the application. User authentication is one of the most important security services to protect WSN data access from unauthorized users; it should provide both mutual authentication and session key establishment services. This paper proposes a robust user authentication framework for wireless sensor networks, based on a two-factor (password and smart card) concept. This scheme facilitates many services to the users such as user anonymity, mutual authentication, secure session key establishment and it allows users to choose/update their password regularly, whenever needed. Furthermore, we have provided the formal verification using Rubin logic and compare RUASN with many existing schemes. As a result, we found that the proposed scheme possesses many advantages against popular attacks, and achieves better efficiency at low computation cost.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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