WSN-SLAP: Secure and Lightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensors

DeokKyu Kwon¹  SeungHwan Son¹  JoonYoung Lee¹  YoungHo Park¹  SungJin Yu¹ 

[1] School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea;

关键词: mutual authentication;    wireless sensor networks;    BAN logic;    ROR model;    AVISPA;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s21030936

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely used to provide users with convenient services such as health-care, and smart home. To provide convenient services, sensor nodes in WSN environments collect and send the sensing data to the gateway. However, it can suffer from serious security issues because susceptible messages are exchanged through an insecure channel. Therefore, secure authentication protocols are necessary to prevent security flaws in WSN. In 2020, Moghadam et al. suggested an efficient authentication and key agreement scheme in WSN. Unfortunately, we discover that Moghadam et al.’s scheme cannot prevent insider and session-specific random number leakage attacks. We also prove that Moghadam et al.’s scheme does not ensure perfect forward secrecy. To prevent security vulnerabilities of Moghadam et al.’s scheme, we propose a secure and lightweight mutual authentication protocol for WSNs (WSN-SLAP). WSN-SLAP has the resistance from various security drawbacks, and provides perfect forward secrecy and mutual authentication. We prove the security of WSN-SLAP by using Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic, Real-or-Random (ROR) model, and Automated Verification of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) simulation. In addition, we evaluate the performance of WSN-SLAP compared with existing related protocols. We demonstrate that WSN-SLAP is more secure and suitable than previous protocols for WSN environments.

【 授权许可】

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