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A Hybrid Mutual Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain Technology for WBANs

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Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2019)

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Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are important applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) in medical monitoring. WBANs are used to collect patients’ physiological information and to achieve the forwarding of sensitive information between patients and medical service center. Carried out through a public channel, the transmission of sensitive information is susceptible to unpredictable attacks. Therefore, mutual authentication and key agreement between the sensors on patients and the hub node of the medical service center need to be performed before the message transmission to ensure the security of message transmission in the network. A lightweight anonymous mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for two-hop blockchain WBANs is proposed in this paper. This scheme satisfies both security and lightweight requirements, making it possible to implement a mutual authenticate and key agreement between sensor nodes on patients and different hub nodes across regions. In addition, the Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) is used to evaluate the security of the protocol. Finally, the computation cost and communication cost of the proposed protocol are compared with those of the related schemes, with the results showing that the proposed protocol shows a better energy consumption control.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61872138 & 61572188 & 61902125). Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province (Grant No. 2019JJ50187). Scientific Research Project of Hunan Education Department (Grant No. 18B209).

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    Jianbo Xu, Xiangwei Meng, Wei Liang & Li Peng

  2. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China

    Zisang Xu

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, 43301, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

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Xu, J., Meng, X., Liang, W., Peng, L., Xu, Z., Li, KC. (2020). A Hybrid Mutual Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain Technology for WBANs. In: Zheng, Z., Dai, HN., Tang, M., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1156. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2777-7_28

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