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A Cooperative End to End Key Management Scheme for E-health Applications in the Context of Internet of Things

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Ad-hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW 2014)

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In the context of Internet of Things where real world objects will automatically be part of the Internet, e-health applications have emerged as a promising approach to provide unobtrusive support for elderly and frail people. However, due to the limited resources available and privacy concerns, security issues constitute a major obstacle to their deployment. Among these issues, key distribution for heterogeneous nodes is problematic due to the inconsistencies in their cryptographic primitives. This paper introduces a new key management scheme that aims to establish session keys for highly resource-constrained nodes ensuring security protection through strong encryption and authentication means. Our protocol is based on collaboration by offloading heavy asymmetric cryptographic operations to a set of third parties. The generated shared secret is then used to derive further credentials. Security analysis demonstrates that our protocol provides strong security features while the scarcity of resources is taken into consideration.

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  1. LSI, USTHB: University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumedienne, BP 32, El Alia Bab Ezzouar, Algiers, Algeria

    Mohammed Riyadh Abdmeziem

  2. CERIST: Center for Research on Scientific and Technical Information, 03, Rue Des Freres Aissou, Ben Aknoun, Algiers, Algeria

    Djamel Tandjaoui

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  1. Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Miguel Garcia Pineda

  2. Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Jaime Lloret

  3. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Symeon Papavassiliou

  4. FTW - Telecommunication Center, Wien, Austria

    Stefan Ruehrup

  5. Federal University of Santo Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

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Abdmeziem, M.R., Tandjaoui, D. (2015). A Cooperative End to End Key Management Scheme for E-health Applications in the Context of Internet of Things. In: Garcia Pineda, M., Lloret, J., Papavassiliou, S., Ruehrup, S., Westphall, C. (eds) Ad-hoc Networks and Wireless. ADHOC-NOW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46338-3_4

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