Certificateless Algorithm for Body Sensor Network and Remote Medical Server Units Authentication over Public Wireless Channels

Authors

  • Bahaa Hussein Taher

    Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
  • Muhammad Yasir China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China
  • Abraham Isiaho Kaimosi Friends University College, Kaimosi, Kenya
  • Judith N. Nyakanga

    Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30564/jcsr.v4i3.4258

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks process and exchange mission-critical data relating to patients' health status. Obviously, any leakages of the sensed data can have serious consequences which can endanger the lives of patients. As such, there is need for strong security and privacy protection of the data in storage as well as the data in transit. Over the recent past, researchers have developed numerous security protocols based on digital signatures, advanced encryption standard, digital certificates and elliptic curve cryptography among other approaches. However, previous studies have shown the existence of many security and privacy gaps that can be exploited by attackers to cause some harm in these networks. In addition, some techniques such as digital certificates have high storage and computation complexities occasioned by certificate and public key management issues. In this paper, a certificateless algorithm is developed for authenticating the body sensors and remote medical server units. Security analysis has shown that it offers data privacy, secure session key agreement, untraceability and anonymity. It can also withstand typical wireless sensor networks attacks such as impersonation, packet replay and man-in-the-middle. On the other hand, it is demonstrated to have the least execution time and bandwidth requirements.

Keywords:

Authentication; Body sensors; Security; Privacy; WBAN

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Taher, B. H., Yasir, M., Isiaho, A., & Nyakanga, J. N. (2022). Certificateless Algorithm for Body Sensor Network and Remote Medical Server Units Authentication over Public Wireless Channels. Journal of Computer Science Research, 4(3), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.30564/jcsr.v4i3.4258

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