Improved robust user authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks

Author

Vaidya, Binod ; Chen, Min ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Covilha, Portugal

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used in a wide variety of applications. Deploying WSNs in unattended environments can cause various security threats. In these scenarios, provisioning user authentication is a critical issue. In this paper, we propose improved robust user authentication scheme for WSNs, which is a variation of strong-password based solution. We have analyzed security properties of the proposed scheme and compared with the previous schemes in terms of overhead cost. We have also conducted formal verification of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

authorisation; formal verification; message authentication; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; WSN; formal verification; overhead cost; robust user authentication scheme; security properties; security threats; strong-password based solution; wireless sensor networks; Authentication; Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Formal verification; Protocols; Robustness; Security; Telecommunications; Vehicle dynamics; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN), 2009 Fifth IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5876-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSN.2009.5434810

Filename

5434810