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Implicit authentication protocol and self-healing key management for WBANs

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In recent years, the rapid development of computer science and technology brings health care into the information era. As a typical representation, wireless body area networks (WBANs) has also promoted the development of medical technology into a higher field. However, collecting data from users seriously affects personal privacy and security, that WBANs needs to overcome. In order to resolve the flaws of the existing secure authentication protocols in WBANs, we propose a lightweight implicit authentication protocol based on the Elliptic Curve Qu-Vantone (ECQV) algorithm. Moreover, we take advantage of the bidirectional key chain to design a group key management protocol between the personal digital assistance (PDA) and each of cluster head sensor nodes. The security and performance analysis show that our protocol can be performed with perfect forward security and backward security in data communication. In addition, the experimental simulation and theoretic analysis show that our protocol is more suitable for WBANs.

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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61672295, No. 61672290 and No. U1405254, the State Key Laboratory of Information Security under Grant No. 2017-MS-10, the 2015 Project of six personnel in Jiangsu Province under Grant No. R2015L06, the CICAEET fund, and the PAPD fund.

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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  3. School of Computer & Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

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Shen, J., Chang, S., Liu, Q. et al. Implicit authentication protocol and self-healing key management for WBANs. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 11381–11401 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-5559-z

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