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A Lightweight Secure User Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Joint Authors
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-12-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have great potential for numerous domains of application because of their ability to sense and understand unattended environments.
However, a WSN is subject to various attacks due to the openness of the public wireless channel.
Therefore, a secure authentication mechanism is vital to enable secure communication within WSNs, and many studies on authentication techniques have been presented to build robust WSNs.
Recently, Lu et al.
analyzed the security defects of the previous ones and proposed an anonymous three-factor authenticated key agreement protocol for WSNs.
However, we found that their protocol is vulnerable to some security weaknesses, such as the offline password guessing attack, known session-specific temporary information attack, and no session key backward secrecy.
We propose a lightweight security-improved three-factor authentication scheme for WSNs to overcome the previously stated weaknesses.
In addition, the improved scheme is proven to be secure under the random oracle model, and a formal verification is conducted by ProVerif to reveal that the proposal achieves the required security features.
Moreover, the theoretical analysis indicates that the proposal can resist known attacks.
A comparison with related works demonstrates that the proposed scheme is superior due to its reasonable performance and additional security features.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mo, Jiaqing& Chen, Hang. 2019. A Lightweight Secure User Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210288
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mo, Jiaqing& Chen, Hang. A Lightweight Secure User Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210288
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mo, Jiaqing& Chen, Hang. A Lightweight Secure User Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Security and Communication Networks. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210288
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1210288