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A Performance and Usability Aware Secure Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Joint Authors
Kim, Juho
Yoo, Sang Guun
Lee, Hyukjun
Source
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue - (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-22, 22 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-05-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
Telecommunications Engineering
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Recently, several user authentication schemes for wireless sensor networks based on two-factor concept using the smart card technology were proposed.
However, they have serious limitations in terms of security and usability.
First, even though they are enhancements of other works, they still have several security flaws, such as vulnerability against parallel session, privileged-insider, and gateway-node bypassing attacks and lack of mutual authentication between user station and gateway node.
On the other hand, they also present a usability constraint, in a sense that they do not consider the use case when sensor nodes cannot communicate with gateway node.
In this case, data collected by isolated sensor nodes could not be accessed until they recover such communication, which is in many times not recoverable rapidly or forever (e.g., military applications, natural disaster monitoring).
Due to all these reasons, this paper proposes a robust user authentication scheme which fixes the security weaknesses of previous solutions and provides wider usability considering the use case when the sensor nodes cannot communicate with the gateway node.
Once the solution is described, its security is ensured by formal proof and analysis against attacks.
Additionally, performance and cost analysis are executed to determine its level of feasibility for real implementation.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yoo, Sang Guun& Lee, Hyukjun& Kim, Juho. 2013. A Performance and Usability Aware Secure Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks،Vol. 2013, no. -, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-480249
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yoo, Sang Guun…[et al.]. A Performance and Usability Aware Secure Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Vol. 2013, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-480249
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yoo, Sang Guun& Lee, Hyukjun& Kim, Juho. A Performance and Usability Aware Secure Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. -, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-480249
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-480249