Lightweight Privacy and Confidentiality Preserving Anonymous Authentication Scheme for WBANs

Abstract

The recent developments in the wireless body area networks (WBAN) play a vital role in the modern remote health care monitoring system. In WBAN, the deployed intelligent, resource-limited body sensors will collect the patient's biological information (BI) and communicate the same to the doctor for further action through the Internet. But during the communication among the WBAN entities, the privacy, security of the BI, and user's personal data need to be protected against various security threats. To address these security flaws, in this article, a computationally efficient privacy-preserving anonymous authentication scheme is proposed for resource-limited WBAN. Also, it preserves the physical security of sensors and the confidentiality of BI and provides conditional privacy to the WBAN users. The comprehensive security and performance evaluation phase ensures that the proposed scheme is efficient and secure in terms of computational and communication complexity when compared with the other conventional schemes.