A Secured Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Elliptic Curves Cryptography

By Hsiu-lien Yeh, Tien-Ho Chen, Pin-Chuan Liu, Tai-Hoo Kim, Hsin-Wen Wei. Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2011

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User authentication is a crucial service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that is becoming increasingly common in WSNs because wireless sensor nodes are typically deployed in an unattended environment, leaving them open to possible hostile network attack. Because wireless sensor nodes are limited in computing power, data storage and communication capabilities, any user authentication protocol must be designed to operate efficiently in a resource constrained environment. In this paper, we review several proposed WSN user authentication protocols, with a detailed review of the M.L Das protocol and a cryptanalysis of Das’ protocol that shows several security weaknesses. Furthermore, this paper proposes an ECC-based user authentication protocol that resolves these weaknesses. According to our analysis of security of the ECC-based protocol, it is suitable for applications with higher security requirements. Finally, we present a comparison of security, computation, and communication costs and performances for the proposed protocols. The ECC-based protocol is shown to be suitable for higher security WSNs.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• A novel user authentication and key agreement scheme for heterogeneous ad hoc wireless sensor networks, based on the Internet of Things notion (2014, methodology): “Step 4: The masked password MP i and masked identity MI i are then sent to the GWN via a secure channel [23].”
• A Robust ECC-Based Provable Secure Authentication Protocol With Privacy Preserving for Industrial Internet of Things (2018, methodology): “[19] presented a two-factor authentication protocol for WSNs”
• A Provably Secure, Efficient, and Flexible Authentication Scheme for Ad hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (2016, methodology): “[13] proposed a first authentication protocol using both ECC and smart card for WSNs.”
• A temporal-credential-based mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for wireless sensor networks (2013, methodology): “Meanwhile, our protocol and Yeh et al. (2011) both provide the key agreement process.”