Secure anonymous mutual authentication for star two-tier wireless body area networks

• We propose a new secure protocol to realize anonymous mutual authentication and confidential transmission for star topology two-tier wireless body area networks (WBAN).• The proposed protocol uses simple cryptographic primitives, which make it very efficient for implementation on sensors with very limited resources.• We prove the security of the proposed protocol using the widely-accepted Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic, and also through rigorous informal security analysis.• In addition, to demonstrate the practicality of our protocol, we evaluate it using NS-2 simulator.

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - July 13, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Maged Hamada Ibrahim, Saru Kumari, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammad Wazid, Vanga Odelu Source Type: research