Efficient and anonymous two-factor user authentication in wireless sensor networks:Achieving user anonymity with lightweight sensor computation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Nam, Junghyun ^a   Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond ^b   Han, Sangchul ^a   Kim, Moonseong ^c   Paik, Juryon ^d   Won, Dongho ^d  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Korea Intellectual Property Office   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTHENTICATED KEY EXCHANGE SECURITY; BIOSENSOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LIGHTWEIGHT CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REGISTRATION; SMART CARD BASED USER AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; USER ANONYMITY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEVICES; HUMAN; SMART CARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; HEALTH SMART CARDS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84928914432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116709     Document Type: Article

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