Biometric access control for wireless nodes

Author

Althobaiti, O. ; Al-Rodhaan, Mznah ; Al-Dhelaan, Abdullah

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

174

Abstract

The most important requirements of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) security are confidentiality, authentication and integrity. User authentication is necessary for legitimate access control in WSNs. These sensors have limited processing power, bandwidth, memory and limited communication abilities. Assume that WSN is deployed in a hospital, a university campus, or a smart home, to permit legal users to query and receive the particular response from any of this sensor node of WSN. Significantly, the system must produce authentication method for confirming if the user is legal or not. We present a solution based on biometric for this problem and also adapt it for WSN environment. The proposed protocol involves simple operations and light computations.

Keywords

authorisation; cryptographic protocols; data integrity; query processing; sensor placement; wireless sensor networks; WSN deployment; bandwidth limitation; biometric access control; confidentiality; cryptographic protocol; data integrity; hospital; legal users; limited communication abilities; memory limitation; query response; smart home; university campus; user authentication; wireless nodes; wireless sensor network; Authentication; Encryption; Iris recognition; Protocols; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Access control; Authentication; Biometric; Cryptography; Security; Wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Carlos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4793-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412397

Filename

6412397