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An efficient multi-gateway-based three-factor user authentication and key agreement scheme in hierarchical wireless sensor networks

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SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Volume 9, Issue 13, Pages 2070-2092

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WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1002/sec.1464

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hierarchical wireless sensor networks; authentication; key agreement; BAN logic; AVISPA; security

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User authentication in wireless sensor network (WSN) plays a very important role in which a legal registered user is allowed to access the real-time sensing information from the sensor nodes inside WSN. To allow such access, a user needs to be authenticated by the accessed sensor nodes as well as gateway nodes inside WSNs. Because of resource limitations and vulnerability to physical capture of some sensor nodes by an attacker, design of a secure user authentication in WSN continues to be an important and challenging research area in recent years. In this paper, we propose a new three-factor user authentication scheme based on the multi-gateway WSN architecture. Through the widely-accepted Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic, we prove that our scheme provides the secure mutual authentication. We then present the formal security verification of our proposed scheme using AVISPA tool, which is a powerful validation tool for network security applications, and show that our scheme is secure. In addition, the rigorous informal security analysis shows that our scheme is also secure against possible other known attacks including the sensor node capture attack. Furthermore, we present the additional functionality features that our scheme offers, which are efficient in communication and computation. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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