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User Authentication with Distributed Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Security is an important aspect of any system and its development has enhanced widespread adoption of WSNs. In a typical situation, user wants to access the data directly from a node instead of accessing at the gateway or at the backend of an application system. Therefore, it is necessary that such an access is allowed only to a registered user. We present a user authentication scheme with distributed cluster formation in WSNs. This scheme works as a ring structure and uses one-way communication. In our protocol, three distinct components, gateway, user, and node, can mutually authenticate each other. In addition, we use S/Key algorithm as one-time password for authentication. Our analysis shows that our proposed scheme is as robust as conventional 4-way authentication scheme, while the communication overhead is substantially decreased.

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  1. Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea

    Dong-Hoon Kim & Ki Young Lee

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea

    Youn-Sik Hong

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

  3. Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hwa-Young Jeong

  4. Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

    Mohammad Obaidat

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Kim, DH., Hong, YS., Lee, K.Y. (2014). User Authentication with Distributed Cluster Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Park, J., Zomaya, A., Jeong, HY., Obaidat, M. (eds) Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8798-7_10

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