AAA-WSN: Anonymous access authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks in big data environment

Abstract

The data capturing and access process is an important stage in the big data applications. Most of these applications are exploited the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to accomplish this process through the sensor nodes that are deployed in unsecure and unattended environments. Therefore, these applications are suffered from numerous security weaknesses, an adversary may exploit such weaknesses to break user’s privacy, confidentiality of sensor nodes, and control the communication channel between the network components. Consequently, the security issues for this process have attracted much interest of the researchers with the increasing spread of use such applications. The majority of the proposed authentication schemes fail to solve all existing security weaknesses simultaneously. Thus, the authentication scheme is a critical issue in the WSNs. This paper proposes anonymous access authentication scheme for wireless sensor networks in big data environments (AAA-WSN) to achieve appealing security services. Comparing with the recent WSNs authentication schemes, the AAA-WSN scheme cannot only achieve strong security services such as user anonymity and mutual authentication, but also performs the perfect forward secrecy feature with high level of efficiency. The security analysis shows that the AAA-WSN scheme is resistant to the current known attacks. Moreover, the performance analysis in terms of the storage, computations and communications costs demonstrates that the AAA-WSN scheme achieves high level of security with desirable level of efficiency comparing the recent WSNs authentication schemes.