Abstract:
Authentication is a very significant demand in wireless sensor networks, especially in some critical applications. However, most previous user authentication schemes are always vulnerable and high-power consumption for the resource-constrained WSNs nodes. This study will focus on user authentication by investigating the Park and others schemes to identify their demerits. After that, a novel and lightweight mutual user authentication protocol named MUAP is proposed. The analysis and results show that the proposed scheme not only can resist the specific attacks likes Man-In-The-Middle Attack, Impersonation Attack and Message-Alteration Attack but also is better than Kumar and others protocols in terms of devices computation overhead and communication consumption.
Qinghua Yang, Liejun Wang, Qi Liu and Mingwei Wang, 2014. Secure and Efficient Mutual User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Software Engineering, 8: 184-193.