An Efficient Mutual Authentication and Access Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks in Healthcare

Journal of Networks

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-364

  Le, Xuan Hung ^a   Khalid, Murad ^a   Sankar, Ravi ^a   Lee, Sungyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Access control; Elliptic curve cryptography; User authentication; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL SCHEMES; DATA CONFIDENTIALITY; DYNAMIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; HEALTHCARE IT; MALICIOUS NODES; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL SENSORS; MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PUBLIC KEYS; QUALITY OF CARE; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY SCHEME; SYMMETRIC KEYS; USER AUTHENTICATION;

AUTHENTICATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GEOMETRY; HEALTH CARE; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79953065589     PISSN: 17962056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jnw.6.3.355-364     Document Type: Article

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