A USB- bluetooth two factor mutual authentication security protocol for wireless sensor networks

Title

A USB- bluetooth two factor mutual authentication security protocol for wireless sensor networks

Creator

Thomas P.E.; Binu S.

Description

Wireless sensor networks are easy to deploy, effective, and can monitor unattended environments. As the data transmitted through these networks is highly sensitive, the security of the networks is important and strong authentication measures must be in place. Authentication is done by means of a security protocol, wherein a user is authenticated through certain factors such as a smartcard or a password, and several mathematical calculations such as hashing, and XOR operations. Several previously proposed authentication protocols and their flaws are discussed in this paper. We propose a new two factor mutual authentication protocol using a USB-Bluetooth token as the second factor, to overcome the security flaws seen in previous schemes. We also provide security analysis as well as Scyther results in support of the proposed protocol. The proposed protocol can be used across various fields such as healthcare, agriculture, traffic monitoring etc. BEIESP.

Source

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, Vol-8, No. 1, pp. 1804-1810.

Date

2019-01-01

Publisher

Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication

Subject

Bluetooth; Key agreement; Two factor mutual authentication; USB; Wireless sensor networks; WSN

Coverage

Thomas P.E., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 560029, Karnataka, India; Binu S., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 560029, Karnataka, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 22773878

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

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