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IJCCE 2016 Vol.5(1): 50-60 ISSN: 2010-3743
DOI: 10.17706/IJCCE.2016.5.1.50-60

Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Services over Wireless Body Area Networks

Seulgi Shin, Sung Woon Lee, Hyunsung Kim
Abstract—Ubiquitous healthcare service is one of the major fields of research for wireless body area networks (WBANs). Ensuring complete and a good level of security for such types of WBANs, is not a trivial task. It is practically impossible to deal with all sorts of security threats with a single mechanism. This paper reviews Khan et al.’s authentication protocol for healthcare service over WBANs and shows that it does not provide forward secrecy. Furthermore, this paper proposes a remedy protocol for Khan et al.’s authentication protocol and the previous related protocols. The proposed protocol could be utilized as a basic security building block for healthcare applications based on WBANs.

Index Terms—Healthcare service, wireless body area network, security, authentication.

Seulgi Shin and Hyunsung Kim are with the Department of Cyber Security Kyungil University, Korea.
Sung Woon Lee is with the Department of Information Security, Tongmyong University, Korea.

Cite:Seulgi Shin, Sung Woon Lee, Hyunsung Kim, "Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Services over Wireless Body Area Networks," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 50-60, 2016.

General Information

ISSN: 2010-3743 (Online)
Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Comput. Commun. Eng.
Frequency: Quarterly
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Maode Ma
Abstracting/ Indexing: INSPEC, CNKI, Google Scholar, Crossref, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Electronic Journals Library
E-mail: ijcce@iap.org
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