@Article{jiot.2021.018088,
AUTHOR = {Abdullah M. Almuhaideb, Kawther S. Alqudaihi},
TITLE = {Authentication in Wireless Body Area Network: Taxonomy and Open  Challenges},
JOURNAL = {Journal on Internet of Things},
VOLUME = {3},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {4},
PAGES = {159--182},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/jiot/v3n4/46092},
ISSN = {2579-0080},
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.},
DOI = {10.32604/jiot.2021.018088}
}