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The proliferation of current wireless networks and devices has been promoting the development of Internet of Things (IoT). Since the devices have low data handling capabilities and limited storage space in IoT environment, authentication between users and servers is essential. In this paper, we briefly introduce two models tailored for the Internet of Things environment and design an authentication protocol for each model, respectively, which has a higher security level and the lower computational consumption compared with some existing authentications for IoT or WSN.
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This study was funded by the National Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2018LF006).
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Zhang, X., Wen, F. An novel anonymous user WSN authentication for Internet of Things. Soft Comput 23, 5683–5691 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-018-3226-6
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