Efficient and Anonymous Authentication for Healthcare Service With Cloud Based WBANs

Abstract

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) technology nowadays has become a promising networking paradigm in the Internet of Things (IoT) as it can provide people with high quality of life and a high level of medical service. Specifically, to make sure those people with a high incidence of chronic diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, are taking care of which further reduces social costs. Thus, both industry and academia in recent years pay widely attention to WBANs technology. After years of research, security, privacy, and efficiency of the healthcare services in WBANs have remained as major challenges. Although different authentication mechanisms have been designed to meet the challenges in recent years, most of them suffer from some functional defects or security problems. To ensure the security and privacy of patients’ sensitive biomedical data and the efficiency of message processing across different devices, it is critical to provide a secure and lightweight authentication scheme for WBANs.