Multi-party anonymous authentication scheme in heterogeneous network slicing

Abstract

Network slicing is a logical network function that supports communication service requirements for specific usage scenarios or business models. It has become an essential factor in solving future network architecture. In recent years, heterogeneous network slicing between multiple autonomous domains has emerged, with significant limitations compared to single-domain networks. Data sharing in heterogeneous network slices challenge the confidentiality of sensitive data significantly. Preventing sensitive data from leaking and protecting core data have become urgent problems to be solved. Therefore, we propose a multi-party (multi-sender to multi-receiver) anonymous authentication scheme on certificateless cryptography(CLC) and identity-based cryptosystem(IBC) institutional domain Internet of Vehicles(IoV) to smart healthcare. Our scheme realizes heterogeneous communication between multiple senders and multiple receivers, and uses different system parameters for heterogeneous cryptographic systems. In this work, the limitation of one-to-many or many-to-one communication in existing heterogeneous networks is broken through. The proposed work utilizes the pseudo-identity generated by the trusted authority to communicate in IoV slices, ensuring the anonymity of the sender; The authorization Center TA can uniquely determine the true identity of the vehicle through pseudo-random values for traceability. What is more, the Lagrange interpolation formula is employed to prevent the leakage of the identities of smart healthcare slices, ensuring the anonymity of the receiver. Under the random oracle model, the proposed scheme has proved to satisfy unforgeability, confidentiality, and anonymity under the computational Diffie–Hellman problem. Experimental results indicate that our proposal achieves better performance than existing schemes.