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A privacy preserving quantum authentication scheme for secure data sharing in wireless body area networks

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The wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as a promising networking paradigm thanks to embedded systems, integrated circuit technologies, and wireless communications advancements. WBAN has the ability to send real-time biomedical data to remote medical personnel for clinical diagnostics through intelligent medical sensors in or around the patient’s body. Moreover, WBANs have played an increasingly important role in modern medical systems over the past decade as part of the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to their conveniences, WBANs present us with the data confidentiality challenge and protecting patient’s privacy. The system requires a robust security mechanism to protect against threats because of the massive production of delay-sensitive data. This article presents a quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol-based authentication scheme for secure communication within WBAN infrastructure to prevent attacks and provide services free of security risks. To the best of our knowledge, we proposed a privacy preserving quantum authentication scheme for secure data sharing in WBANs to enhance security by encrypting medical data and safeguarding patients identities. Simulations conducted using Mathematica evaluate the proposed quantum authentication protocol both theoretically and practically, showing strong encryption performance against recent schemes. Results include computational cost of 6.832 ms, communication costs of 588 bits, and energy consumption of 432.98 \(\mu J\) indicating the proposed quantum authentication protocol model exhibits superior reliability, feasibility, and efficiency in safeguarding WBAN data during transmission and storage.

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Sunil Prajapat: Conceptualization, software, validation, writing, visualization. Pankaj Kumar: Conceptualization, validation, reviewing and editing, investigation. Sandeep Kumar: Conceptualization, validation, reviewing and editing, data curation.

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Prajapat, S., Kumar, P. & Kumar, S. A privacy preserving quantum authentication scheme for secure data sharing in wireless body area networks. Cluster Comput 27, 9013–9029 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04449-9

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