Provably secure certificateless protocol for wireless body area network

Wireless body area networks are gaining popularity due to their innovative applications such as timely analysis, remote monitoring of patients' health, and high patient care quality. However, these healthcare systems that carry patient's physiological data need special attention for the security and privacy of information. Due to the openness of transmitted data, the healthcare system gets prone to several adverse attacks. In this paper, a provably secure remote healthcare system is proposed based on the elliptic curve cryptosystem. The goal is to enable confidentiality and privacy of sensitive information by designing a certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol with low computational cost and higher security. The proposed scheme achieves anonymity, resistance to key escrow problems, mutual authentication between the sensor nodes attached to patients and the application provider. Furthermore, the protocol undergoes formal security analysis using the random oracle model, and the soundness of the proposed scheme is validated using ProVerif. Finally, the performance analysis depicts that the proposed scheme is efficient compared to existing methods.

Automated summary

Wireless body area networks are becoming popular for their innovative applications and the need for security and privacy in healthcare systems. This paper proposes a secure remote healthcare system based on elliptic curve cryptosystem, achieving confidentiality and privacy of sensitive information. The scheme guarantees anonymity, resistance to key escrow problems, and mutual authentication between sensor nodes and application provider, and is formally analyzed for security using the random oracle model and validated using ProVerif. Performance analysis shows the proposed scheme is more efficient compared to existing methods.