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Secure and Efficient Mutual Adaptive User Authentication Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Using Multimedia Client–Server Systems

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In hierarchical wireless sensor networks (H-WSNs), adaptive user authentication scheme has attracted significantly for the purposes of mutual authentication, session key establishment and resiliency to the attacks, like impersonation, parallel-session and password guessing. Several user authentication schemes have been proposed recently; though the schemes have had many potential vulnerabilities, such as key-impersonation, user anonymity, eavesdropping and masquerade. Thus, this paper proposes secure-cum-efficient mutual adaptive user authentication (S-Cum-EMAUA) scheme for practical use in H-WSNs. The scheme of S-Cum-EMAUA) is not only resilient to the most of the potential attacks, but also provides mutual authentication, user anonymity and session-key establishment. In addition, the proposed scheme is well secured, since it has the usage of the hash-function and X-OR operation.

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The corresponding author would like to thank Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for the financial assistance under the scheme of Research Scholar Program (RSP).

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Deebak, B.D. Secure and Efficient Mutual Adaptive User Authentication Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Using Multimedia Client–Server Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 87, 1013–1035 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2621-x

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