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The Internet of Things is the interconnection of devices that exchange collected data with each other through the internet using electronics, software, and sensors. Wireless sensor network is used extensively in implementation of the Internet of Things system. With the increasing use of them, many researchers have focused on the security in wireless sensor network environment. In 2016, Wu et al. proposed a user authentication protocol for wireless sensor network, claiming it was secure from various types of attacks. However, we found out that their scheme has some vulnerabilities to the user impersonation attack, and the denial of service attack. In order to overcome these problems, we review Wu et al.’s protocol and propose an improved protocol based on their protocol. Then, we show that our proposed protocol is more secure than other authentication protocols for wireless sensor network.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2010-0020210).
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Song, T., Kang, D., Ryu, J., Kim, H., Won, D. (2018). Cryptanalysis and Improvement of an ECC-Based Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018. ICCSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95165-2_4
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