Secure communication scheme for wireless sensor networks to maintain anonymity

Gagneja, Kanwalinderjit Kaur

doi:10.1109/iccnc.2015.7069511

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“…Anonymity in WSNs means preventing a third party other than the message sender and receiver from knowing the identity of the two primary parties in communication. This includes the sender anonymity, receiver anonymity, and unlinkability between the sender and receiver [26]. Thus, the anonymity of the sensor node is as important as the user anonymity.…”

Section: ) No Sensor Node Anonymitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Privacy-Preserving Authentication, Authorization, and Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks in 5G-Integrated Internet of Things

Shin

Kwon

2020

IEEE Access

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have played an important role in the Internet of Things (IoT), and the 5G network is being considered as a major candidate for IoT's communication network with the advent of 5G commercialization. The potential of integrating WSNs and 5G in the IoT is expected to allow IoT to penetrate deeply into our daily lives and to provide various services that are convenient, but at the same time, it also brings new security threats. From this aspect, user authentication and key agreement are essential for secure end-to-end communication. As IoT devices, including sensors, collect and process more and more personal information, both anonymous authentication and authorization are also required to protect the privacy and to prevent anyone without privileges from accessing private data. Recently, Adavoudi-Jolfaei et al. proposed an anonymous three-factor authentication and access control scheme for real-time applications in WSNs. However, we found that this scheme does not provide sensor-node anonymity and suffers from user collusion and desynchronization attacks. In this paper, we introduce a system architecture by considering the integration of WSNs and 5G for IoT. Based on a cryptanalysis of Adavoudi-Jolfaei et al.'s scheme and the system architecture, we propose an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)-based privacy-preserving authentication, authorization, and key agreement scheme for WSNs in 5G-integrated IoT. We conduct a formal and informal security analysis in order to demonstrate that the proposed scheme withstands various security attacks and guarantees all desired security features, overcoming the drawbacks of Adavoudi-Jolfaei et al.'s scheme. Finally, a performance and comparative analysis with the related schemes indicate that the proposed scheme is both efficient and more secure.

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Section: ) No Sensor Node Anonymitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Privacy-Preserving Authentication, Authorization, and Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks in 5G-Integrated Internet of Things

Shin

Kwon

2020

IEEE Access

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“…However, nodes A and C know nothing about each other. When nodes A and C can interact directly, we call this self-healing process [21].…”

Section: Anonymous Route Self-healing Processmentioning

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“…In Table 3, we give detailed analysis of anonymity in the proposed protocol and the existing protocols. We infer from Table 3 that APR only implements communication association anonymity, RandomWalk only implements destination nodes anonymity [21,22]. However, our proposed protocol FarpScusn has achieved all three types of anonymity simultaneously.…”

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FarpScusn: Fully Anonymous Routing Protocol with Self-Healing Capability in Unstable Sensor Networks

Wang

Hong-wei

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Anonymous technology is an effective way for protecting users’ privacy. Anonymity in sensor networks is to prevent the unauthorized third party from revealing the identities of the communication parties. While, in unstable wireless sensor networks, frequent topology changes often lead to route-failure in anonymous communication. To deal with the problems of anonymous route-failure in unstable sensor networks, in this paper we propose a fully anonymous routing protocol with self-healing capability in unstable sensor networks by constructing a new key agreement scheme and proposing an anonymous identity scheme. The proposed protocol maintains full anonymity of sensor nodes with the self-healing capability of anonymous routes. The results from the performance analysis show that the proposed self-healing anonymity-focused protocol achieves full anonymity of source nodes, destination nodes, and communication association.

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“…SLP keeps the originator sensor node untraceable and unlinkable. Untraceability means that the adversary is unable to trace back the origin node, whereas unlinkability means that the adversary cannot gain the identity of the source [21]. In SLP, the real event (of an asset) mostly has three parameters: event type, event time and, event location [22].…”

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Source Anonymity against Global Adversary in WSNs Using Dummy Packet Injections: A Survey

2018

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Source anonymity in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) becomes a real concern in several applications such as tracking and monitoring. A global adversary that has sophisticated resources, high computation and full view of the network is an obvious threat to such applications. The network and applications need to be protected and secured to provide the expected outcome. Source anonymity is one of the fundamental WSNs security issues. It is all about preventing the adversary from reaching the origin by analyzing the traffic of the network. There are many methods to provide source anonymity, which is also known as Source Location Privacy (SLP). One of these methods is based on dummy packets. The basic notion is to inject the network with dummy packets to confuse the adversary about the location of the transmitting source node. This paper provides a survey of protocols for anonymity that use dummy packet injections. We discuss each technique from the point of their advantages and disadvantages. Further, We provide a comparison for the most promising techniques provided in the literature which use dummy packet injections. A comparison for the adversary assumptions and capabilities will be provided as well.

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Secure communication scheme for wireless sensor networks to maintain anonymity

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

A Privacy-Preserving Authentication, Authorization, and Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks in 5G-Integrated Internet of Things

A Privacy-Preserving Authentication, Authorization, and Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks in 5G-Integrated Internet of Things

FarpScusn: Fully Anonymous Routing Protocol with Self-Healing Capability in Unstable Sensor Networks

Source Anonymity against Global Adversary in WSNs Using Dummy Packet Injections: A Survey

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