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Authentication in Wireless Body Area Network: Taxonomy and Open Challenges
Abdullah M. Almuhaideb, Kawther S. Alqudaihi*
Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal
University, Dammam, 31441, Saudi Arabia
* Corresponding Author:Kawther S. Alqudaihi. Email:
Journal on Internet of Things 2021, 3(4), 159-182. https://doi.org/10.32604/jiot.2021.018088
Received 01 August 2021; Accepted 15 October 2021; Issue published 30 December 2021
Abstract
Wearable body area network (WBAN) aids the communication
between the health providers and patients by supporting health monitoring
services. It assists the users to maintain their health status records by collecting
the body signals and transmitting them for further processing measurements.
However, sensor data are publicly transferred through insecure network that
facilitates the attacker malicious acts like performing masquerading attack, man
in the middle, and snooping. Several authentication techniques were suggested to
levitate the security of the communication channels to preserve the user data
from exposure. Moreover, authentication schemes aid plenty of security issues
related to user and data privacy, anonymity, repudiation, confidentiality, and
integrity, but they lack performance efficiency. On the other hand, it is very hard
to find the balance between security and efficiency in most of the authentication
schemes, especially for the WBAN platform that consists of memory and
processing constraint devices. Therefore, this paper surveys and discusses the
latest authentication schemes types, techniques, and system features. Also, it
highlights their strengths and weaknesses towards common knowingly attacks
and provides a comparison between the popular scheme validation proofs and
simulation tools. Thence, this paper draws a path for the new direction of the
authentication technologies, the authentication schemes open issues, and the
potential future evolution in this area.
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Cite This Article
A. M. Almuhaideb and K. S. Alqudaihi, "Authentication in wireless body area network: taxonomy and open challenges,"
Journal on Internet of Things, vol. 3, no.4, pp. 159–182, 2021. https://doi.org/10.32604/jiot.2021.018088