A Secure Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Schemes for Wireless Body Area Networks

Abstract

As wireless communication technologies are becoming more advanced, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) become essential components of modern health care systems for patient health monitoring. WBAN is widely deployed in many health-care applications because of its capacity to deliver appropriate health services by transferring biological information between end users such as doctors and patients, using implanted or wearable sensors linked to the patient's body through a network. This data will be transmitted to a medical server over a wireless network. The patient's biological information is saved on the cloud. WBAN is less resistant to attacks by unauthorized users due to open wireless transmission. Therefore, security plays a major role for efficient transmission of data between end users. In this research, a WBAN secure anonymously identification and key agreement are provided, allowing verification while maintaining confidentiality of the data. Moreover, the suggested proposed work is clearly safe, and provides the needed security features. It also offers less computational costs when compared to previous techniques.