Paper Info
Title
RUASN: a robust user authentication framework for wireless sensor networks.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.3390/s110505020
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless sensor network security,user authentication,user anonymity,session key establishment,confidentiality
Mutual authentication,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer security,Challenge–response authentication,Computer science,Computer network,Password policy,Authentication protocol,Password,Network Access Control,Multi-factor authentication
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
5
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.64
29
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pardeep Kumar11888.23
Amlan Jyoti Choudhury2432.55
Mangal Sain3475.45
Sang-gon Lee4623.27
Hoonjae Lee517323.71