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- Title
RUASN: A Robust User Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks.
- Authors
Pardeep Kumar; Choudhury, Amlan Jyoti; Sain, Mangal; Sang-Gon Lee; Hoon-Jae Lee
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
WIRELESS sensor networks; LEGAL authentication software; COMPUTER network security; CONFIDENTIAL communications; LOCAL area networks; ROBUST control
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2011, Vol 11, Issue 5, p5020
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s110505020