An improved user authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have its applications in many domains such as agriculture, medicine, safety, and industry. Due to its wireless channel, it is vulnerable to many security threats. To provide end‐to‐end secure communication, various authentication and key agreement protocols have been discussed. Recently, Li et al have designed a mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for WSNs. However, it is found that this scheme does not resist to offline password guessing, device stolen, insider, and replay attacks besides user traceability problem. In this paper, a mutual authentication and key agreement protocol by overcoming the deficiencies of their scheme is proposed. Its formal security verification is shown using ProVerif tool. Its performance analysis is presented in terms of communication cost, computational cost, storage cost, and security features along with the other related schemes. It offers more security features than the other related schemes.

An efficient anonymous user authentication and key agreement protocol for wireless sensor networks

“…Braeken 20 has provided authentication protocol based on physically unclonable function (PUF), but later, its drawbacks were pointed out in the scheme. 21 Li et al 22 presented a lightweight authentication scheme using chaotic maps, but later, Kaur et al 23 showed that the scheme 22 is not secure from offline password guessing attack and insider attack. Recently, many schemes have been proposed for WSNs such as the scheme 24 using physical unclonable function and scheme 25 using ECC for medical environment.…”

“…As WSNs are vulnerable to various attacks such as impersonation attack, insider attack, and replay attack, so these attacks should be considered while developing authentication protocol for WSNs. In the past couple of decades, many user authentication schemes have been proposed, but some attacks such as impersonation attack, insider attack, and replay attack can be prominently found in those schemes 13,15,23,27 . So, there is a need of designing a secure and lightweight authentication protocol for WSNs which is free from these attacks.…”

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