Low-Cost Authentication Protocol for D2D Communication in m-Health with Trust Evaluation

Abstract

Relay-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication serves users at the edge of system coverage of 5G networks, enabling communication among sensors and patients’ mobile devices, and improving spectral and power efficiency. The security of D2D-based m-health applications requires attention due to the delicacy of the data treated in the collection, transmission, and storage of information on patients, whose devices must be adequately authenticated. However, traditional authentication and key agreement schemes are not suitable for D2D scenarios, since they might expose patients to security vulnerabilities and lead to an excessive use of resources. This article proposes a secure and lightweight scheme based on Shamir secret sharing for the mutual authentication of m-health devices in relay-assisted D2D communications, which provides security robustness and reduces resources (energy, processing) consumption. The manuscript also addresses the trustworthiness of devices involved in data relay and device discovery procedures.

D2D Self Organization in IOT via Triple Modular Redundancy Based MDS Code

“…In 2020, Lopes, A.P.G., et al [20] suggested a lightweight and secure method based on Shamir secret sharing that is capable of providing robust security and reducing resource consumption (energy, processing). The manuscript also covers data relay and device discovery procedures.…”

“…Use NS-3 or OMNET + + tools to simulate our protocol in order to assess the energy e ciency and impact of device mobility. [20] Lightweight and secure scheme…”

A Lightweight Key Generation Scheme for Secure Device‐to‐Device (D2D) Communication

“…Because of the broadcast and open-air nature of a wireless channel, device-to-device (D2D) communications [1,2] are vulnerable to message eavesdropping and node impersonation [3][4][5][6]. To resist these attacks, an effective method is to encrypt sensitive data with secret session keys and send encrypted data via wireless channels.…”

“…(2) A new bit extraction method is proposed to improve the key generation rate and key entropy, which includes low entropy measurement elimination, random permutation, and adaptive multiple-bit extraction (3) Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme with both theoretical analysis and simulation. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a higher key generation rate and key entropy compared with existing schemes.…”