Paper Info
Title
An Enhanced Lightweight Anonymous Authentication Scheme for a Scalable Localization Roaming Service in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Abstract
More security concerns and complicated requirements arise in wireless sensor networks than in wired networks, due to the vulnerability caused by their openness. To address this vulnerability, anonymous authentication is an essential security mechanism for preserving privacy and providing security. Over recent years, various anonymous authentication schemes have been proposed. Most of them reveal both strengths and weaknesses in terms of security and efficiency. Recently, Farash et al. proposed a lightweight anonymous authentication scheme in ubiquitous networks, which remedies the security faults of previous schemes. However, their scheme still suffers from certain weaknesses. In this paper, we prove that Farash et al.'s scheme fails to provide anonymity, authentication, or password replacement. In addition, we propose an enhanced scheme that provides efficiency, as well as anonymity and security. Considering the limited capability of sensor nodes, we utilize only low-cost functions, such as one-way hash functions and bit-wise exclusive-OR operations. The security and lightness of the proposed scheme mean that it can be applied to roaming service in localized domains of wireless sensor networks, to provide anonymous authentication of sensor nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16101653
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
anonymity,privacy,authentication,security,roaming service,wireless sensor network
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Authentication,Challenge–response authentication,Computer security,Computer network,Password,Anonymity,Engineering,Network Access Control,Roaming,Wireless sensor network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
10.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Youngseok Chung120.36
Seokjin Choi2152.00
Youngsook Lee312519.89
Namje Park434443.14
Dongho Won51262154.14