Simulation and evaluation of the authentication and session-key establishement protocol in wireless sensor networks

Abstract

The evolution of digital communication era includes both devices and applications running on different platforms. Specifics applications are needed for a safeguard communication ensuring protection and trust services to the users. This paper presents an authentication and session-key establishment protocol that enabling mutual authentication procedure between involved entities in the WSNs. This scheme provides specific security standards such as data integrity, message confidentiality and session key establishment to ensure security and privacy of both data and network. To illustrate the feasibility of the work to real world protocols, we simulate the session key establishment computation using Scyther tool for WiMAX protocol standards. An extensive analysis shows that the proposed scheme achieves efficiency and can be safeguard to real wireless communication applications. Finally, a performance evaluation and comparison shows that our proposed framework is lightweight and resilient to various kinds of attacks.