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Design of a Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for WBANs
Xiangwei Meng, Jianbo Xu*, Xiaohe Wu, Zhechong Wang
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411105, China
* Corresponding Author: Jianbo Xu. Email:
Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection 2020, 2(3), 107-114. https://doi.org/10.32604/jihpp.2020.09901
Received 25 July 2020; Accepted 21 August 2020; Issue published 18 December 2020
Abstract
Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of
sensitive data to the human body, which is lightweight and mobile. WBANs
transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel, which
makes it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop and modify the messages, thus posing
a severe threat to the security of the messages. Therefore, it is essential to put in
place authentication and key agreement between different communication nodes
in WBANs. In this paper, a lightweight and secure authenticated key agreement
protocol in wireless body area networks is designed. It is capable to reduce the
cost of sensor node computation while ensuring security. Besides, an informal
security analysis is conducted to discuss the security of the protocol against wellknown attacks. Finally, the energy consumption of the protocol is evaluated, and
the results show that the sensor nodes only need low storage cost, computational
cost and communication cost.
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Cite This Article
X. Meng, J. Xu, X. Wu and Z. Wang, "Design of a mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for wbans,"
Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, vol. 2, no.3, pp. 107–114, 2020.