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Hoon-jae Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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e sap efficient strong authentication protocol for healthcare applications using wireless Medical Sensor networks
Sensors, 2012Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:A wireless Medical Sensor network (WMSN) can sense humans’ physiological signs without sacrificing patient comfort and transmit patient vital signs to health professionals’ hand-held devices. The patient physiological data are highly sensitive and WMSNs are extremely vulnerable to many attacks. Therefore, it must be ensured that patients’ Medical signs are not exposed to unauthorized users. Consequently, strong user authentication is the main concern for the success and large scale deployment of WMSNs. In this regard, this paper presents an efficient, strong authentication protocol, named E-SAP, for healthcare application using WMSNs. The proposed E-SAP includes: (1) a two-factor (i.e., password and smartcard) professional authentication; (2) mutual authentication between the professional and the Medical Sensor; (3) symmetric encryption/decryption for providing message confidentiality; (4) establishment of a secure session key at the end of authentication; and (5) professionals can change their password. Further, the proposed protocol requires three message exchanges between the professional, Medical Sensor node and gateway node, and achieves efficiency (i.e., low computation and communication cost). Through the formal analysis, security analysis and performance analysis, we demonstrate that E-SAP is more secure against many practical attacks, and allows a tradeoff between the security and the performance cost for healthcare application using WMSNs.
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Security Issues in Healthcare Applications Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks: A Survey
Sensors (Basel Switzerland), 2011Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:Healthcare applications are considered as promising fields for wireless Sensor networks, where patients can be monitored using wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs). Current WMSN healthcare research trends focus on patient reliable communication, patient mobility, and energy-efficient routing, as a few examples. However, deploying new technologies in healthcare applications without considering security makes patient privacy vulnerable. Moreover, the physiological data of an individual are highly sensitive. Therefore, security is a paramount requirement of healthcare applications, especially in the case of patient privacy, if the patient has an embarrassing disease. This paper discusses the security and privacy issues in healthcare application using WMSNs. We highlight some popular healthcare projects using wireless Medical Sensor networks, and discuss their security. Our aim is to instigate discussion on these critical issues since the success of healthcare application depends directly on patient security and privacy, for ethic as well as legal reasons. In addition, we discuss the issues with existing security mechanisms, and sketch out the important security requirements for such applications. In addition, the paper reviews existing schemes that have been recently proposed to provide security solutions in wireless healthcare scenarios. Finally, the paper ends up with a summary of open security research issues that need to be explored for future healthcare applications using WMSNs.
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HPCC - A User Authentication for Healthcare Application Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks
2011 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2011Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:This paper presents a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs), where wireless Medical Sensors are used for patients monitoring. These Medical Sensors' sense the patient body data and transmit it to the professionals (e.g., doctors, nurses, and surgeons). Since, the data of an individual are highly vulnerable, it must ensures that patients Medical vital signs are secure, and are not exposed to an unauthorized person. In this regards, we propose a user1 authentication scheme for healthcare application using Medical Sensor networks. The proposed scheme includes: a novel two-factor professionals authentication (user authentication), where the healthcare professionals are authenticated before access the patient's body data; a secure session key is establish between the patient Sensor node and the professional at the end of user authentication. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the proposed scheme is safeguard to various practical attacks and achieves efficiency at low computation cost.
Pardeep Kumar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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e sap efficient strong authentication protocol for healthcare applications using wireless Medical Sensor networks
Sensors, 2012Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:A wireless Medical Sensor network (WMSN) can sense humans’ physiological signs without sacrificing patient comfort and transmit patient vital signs to health professionals’ hand-held devices. The patient physiological data are highly sensitive and WMSNs are extremely vulnerable to many attacks. Therefore, it must be ensured that patients’ Medical signs are not exposed to unauthorized users. Consequently, strong user authentication is the main concern for the success and large scale deployment of WMSNs. In this regard, this paper presents an efficient, strong authentication protocol, named E-SAP, for healthcare application using WMSNs. The proposed E-SAP includes: (1) a two-factor (i.e., password and smartcard) professional authentication; (2) mutual authentication between the professional and the Medical Sensor; (3) symmetric encryption/decryption for providing message confidentiality; (4) establishment of a secure session key at the end of authentication; and (5) professionals can change their password. Further, the proposed protocol requires three message exchanges between the professional, Medical Sensor node and gateway node, and achieves efficiency (i.e., low computation and communication cost). Through the formal analysis, security analysis and performance analysis, we demonstrate that E-SAP is more secure against many practical attacks, and allows a tradeoff between the security and the performance cost for healthcare application using WMSNs.
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Security Issues in Healthcare Applications Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks: A Survey
Sensors (Basel Switzerland), 2011Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:Healthcare applications are considered as promising fields for wireless Sensor networks, where patients can be monitored using wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs). Current WMSN healthcare research trends focus on patient reliable communication, patient mobility, and energy-efficient routing, as a few examples. However, deploying new technologies in healthcare applications without considering security makes patient privacy vulnerable. Moreover, the physiological data of an individual are highly sensitive. Therefore, security is a paramount requirement of healthcare applications, especially in the case of patient privacy, if the patient has an embarrassing disease. This paper discusses the security and privacy issues in healthcare application using WMSNs. We highlight some popular healthcare projects using wireless Medical Sensor networks, and discuss their security. Our aim is to instigate discussion on these critical issues since the success of healthcare application depends directly on patient security and privacy, for ethic as well as legal reasons. In addition, we discuss the issues with existing security mechanisms, and sketch out the important security requirements for such applications. In addition, the paper reviews existing schemes that have been recently proposed to provide security solutions in wireless healthcare scenarios. Finally, the paper ends up with a summary of open security research issues that need to be explored for future healthcare applications using WMSNs.
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HPCC - A User Authentication for Healthcare Application Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks
2011 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2011Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:This paper presents a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs), where wireless Medical Sensors are used for patients monitoring. These Medical Sensors' sense the patient body data and transmit it to the professionals (e.g., doctors, nurses, and surgeons). Since, the data of an individual are highly vulnerable, it must ensures that patients Medical vital signs are secure, and are not exposed to an unauthorized person. In this regards, we propose a user1 authentication scheme for healthcare application using Medical Sensor networks. The proposed scheme includes: a novel two-factor professionals authentication (user authentication), where the healthcare professionals are authenticated before access the patient's body data; a secure session key is establish between the patient Sensor node and the professional at the end of user authentication. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the proposed scheme is safeguard to various practical attacks and achieves efficiency at low computation cost.
Muhammad Khurram Khan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems
IEEE Systems Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Jieyao Peng, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Chaoyang ChenAbstract:The Internet of Things (IoT) enables all objects to connect to the Internet and exchange data via different emerging technologies, which makes the intelligent identification and management a reality. Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs), as a crucial basis of IoT, have been applied in many fields like smart health care and smart transportation. With the development of WSNs, data security has attracted more and more attention, and user authentication is a popular mechanism to ensure the information security of WSNs. Recently, many authentication mechanisms for wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs) have been proposed, but most of the protocols cannot achieve the features of local password change and forward secrecy while resisting stolen smart card attack. To enhance the security based on previous work, an ECC-based secure three-factor authentication protocol with forward secrecy for WMSN is proposed in this paper. It utilizes a fuzzy commitment scheme to handle the biometric information. Meanwhile, fuzzy verifier and honey_list techniques are used to solve the contradiction of local password verification and mobile device lost attack. The security of our protocol is evaluated by provable security, Proverif tool, and information analysis. Besides, the comparisons with the relevant protocols are given, and the results indicate that our protocol is robust and secure for WMSN systems.
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A robust and anonymous patient monitoring system using wireless Medical Sensor networks
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018Co-Authors: Ruhul Amin, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Sk Hafizul Islam, G. P. Biswas, Neeraj KumarAbstract:In wireless Medical Sensor network (WMSN), bio-Sensors are implanted within the patient body to sense the sensitive information of a patient which later on can be transmitted to the remote Medical centers for further processing. The patients data can be accessed using WMSN by Medical professionals from anywhere across the globe with the help of Internet. As the patient sensitive information is transmitted over an insecure WMSN, so providing a secure access and privacy of the patients data are challenging issues in WMSN environments. However, in literature, to provide secure data access, few user authentication protocols exist. Most of these existing protocols may not be applicable to WMSNs for providing users anonymity. To fill these gaps, in this article, we propose an architecture for patient monitoring health-care system in WMSN and then design an anonymity-preserving mutual authentication protocol for mobile users. We used the AVISPA tool to simulate the proposed protocol. The results obtained indicate that the proposed authentication protocol resists the existing well known attacks. In addition, the BAN logic model confirms mutual authentication feature of the proposed protocol. Moreover, an informal cryptanalysis is also given, which ensures that the proposed protocol withstands all known attacks. We perform a comparative discussion of the proposed protocol against the existing protocols and the comparative results demonstrate that the proposed protocol is efficient and robust. Specifically, the proposed protocol is not only effective in providing robustness against common security threats, but it also offers an efficient login, robust mutual authentication, and user-friendly password change. A robust and anonymous user authentication protocol is designed to monitor patient health using wireless Medical Sensor networks.The security validation and authentication proof of the proposed protocol is done using AVISPA tool and BAN logic.The proposed protocol has superior performance than the existing protocols.
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A new authentication protocol for healthcare applications using wireless Medical Sensor networks with user anonymity
Security and Communication Networks, 2015Co-Authors: Jianwei Niu, Saru Kumari, Junguo Liao, Wei Liang, Muhammad Khurram KhanAbstract:With the development and maturation of the wireless communication technologies, the wireless Sensor networks have been widely applied in different environments to acquire specific information. The wireless Medical Sensor networks WMSNs, as a professional application of the wireless Sensor networks in medicine, have attracted more and more attention because of its potential in improving the quality of healthcare services. Through the WMSNs, the parameters of patients' vital signs can be gathered from the Sensor nodes equipped on the body of the patients and then can be accessed by the healthcare professionals by using a mobile device. By reason of the open feature of wireless communication, how to guarantee secure communication becomes an important issue. On the other hand, because the vital signs parameters are sensitive to the patients' health status and no one wants to reveal it to the others except the healthcare professionals, the protection of patients' privacy becomes another key issue for WMSNs applications. User authentication protocol with anonymity is the most basic and commonly used method to resolve the security and privacy issues of WMSNs. Recently, He et al. proposed an enhanced authentication protocol for healthcare applications using WMSNs to protect the security and privacy problems. However, we find that their scheme is incorrect in authentication and session key agreement phase. Besides, their scheme has no wrong password detection mechanism, which will not only waste the unnecessary computation and communication costs, but also may deduce the denial of service problem. In this paper, the biometric is introduced as the third authentication factor, and a new user anonymous authentication protocol based on WMSNs is designed so as to remove the drawbacks of the protocol of He et al. Compared with previous protocols, the new presented protocol enhances the security and also keeps the computation efficiency. Copyright © 2015John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Cryptanalysis of an ‘Efficient-Strong Authentiction Protocol (E-SAP) for Healthcare Applications Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks’
Ksii Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2013Co-Authors: Muhammad Khurram Khan, Saru Kumari, Pitam SinghAbstract:Now a day, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being widely used in different areas one of which is healthcare services. A wireless Medical Sensor network senses patient’s vital physiological signs through Medical Sensor-nodes deployed on patient’s body area; and transmits these signals to devices of registered Medical professionals. These Sensor-nodes have low computational power and limited storage capacity. Moreover, the wireless nature of technology attracts malicious minds. Thus, proper user authentication is a prime concern before granting access to patient’s sensitive and private data. Recently, P. Kumar et al. claimed to propose a strong authentication protocol for healthcare using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (WMSN). However, we find that P. Kumar et al.’s scheme is flawed with a number of security pitfalls. Information stored inside smart card, if extracted, is enough to deceive a valid user. Adversary can not only access patient’s physiological data on behalf of a valid user without knowing actual password, can also send fake/irrelevant information about patient by playing role of Medical Sensor-node. Besides, adversary can guess a user’s password and is able to compute the session key shared between user and Medical Sensor-nodes. Thus, the scheme looses message confidentiality. Additionally, the scheme fails to resist insider attack and lacks user anonymity.
Chaoyang Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems
IEEE Systems Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Jieyao Peng, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Chaoyang ChenAbstract:The Internet of Things (IoT) enables all objects to connect to the Internet and exchange data via different emerging technologies, which makes the intelligent identification and management a reality. Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs), as a crucial basis of IoT, have been applied in many fields like smart health care and smart transportation. With the development of WSNs, data security has attracted more and more attention, and user authentication is a popular mechanism to ensure the information security of WSNs. Recently, many authentication mechanisms for wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs) have been proposed, but most of the protocols cannot achieve the features of local password change and forward secrecy while resisting stolen smart card attack. To enhance the security based on previous work, an ECC-based secure three-factor authentication protocol with forward secrecy for WMSN is proposed in this paper. It utilizes a fuzzy commitment scheme to handle the biometric information. Meanwhile, fuzzy verifier and honey_list techniques are used to solve the contradiction of local password verification and mobile device lost attack. The security of our protocol is evaluated by provable security, Proverif tool, and information analysis. Besides, the comparisons with the relevant protocols are given, and the results indicate that our protocol is robust and secure for WMSN systems.
Sanggon Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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e sap efficient strong authentication protocol for healthcare applications using wireless Medical Sensor networks
Sensors, 2012Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:A wireless Medical Sensor network (WMSN) can sense humans’ physiological signs without sacrificing patient comfort and transmit patient vital signs to health professionals’ hand-held devices. The patient physiological data are highly sensitive and WMSNs are extremely vulnerable to many attacks. Therefore, it must be ensured that patients’ Medical signs are not exposed to unauthorized users. Consequently, strong user authentication is the main concern for the success and large scale deployment of WMSNs. In this regard, this paper presents an efficient, strong authentication protocol, named E-SAP, for healthcare application using WMSNs. The proposed E-SAP includes: (1) a two-factor (i.e., password and smartcard) professional authentication; (2) mutual authentication between the professional and the Medical Sensor; (3) symmetric encryption/decryption for providing message confidentiality; (4) establishment of a secure session key at the end of authentication; and (5) professionals can change their password. Further, the proposed protocol requires three message exchanges between the professional, Medical Sensor node and gateway node, and achieves efficiency (i.e., low computation and communication cost). Through the formal analysis, security analysis and performance analysis, we demonstrate that E-SAP is more secure against many practical attacks, and allows a tradeoff between the security and the performance cost for healthcare application using WMSNs.
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HPCC - A User Authentication for Healthcare Application Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks
2011 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 2011Co-Authors: Pardeep Kumar, Sanggon Lee, Hoon-jae LeeAbstract:This paper presents a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using wireless Medical Sensor networks (WMSNs), where wireless Medical Sensors are used for patients monitoring. These Medical Sensors' sense the patient body data and transmit it to the professionals (e.g., doctors, nurses, and surgeons). Since, the data of an individual are highly vulnerable, it must ensures that patients Medical vital signs are secure, and are not exposed to an unauthorized person. In this regards, we propose a user1 authentication scheme for healthcare application using Medical Sensor networks. The proposed scheme includes: a novel two-factor professionals authentication (user authentication), where the healthcare professionals are authenticated before access the patient's body data; a secure session key is establish between the patient Sensor node and the professional at the end of user authentication. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the proposed scheme is safeguard to various practical attacks and achieves efficiency at low computation cost.