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ASK-RAM-IMOT: Autonomous Shared Keys based Remote Authentication Method for Internet of Medical Things Applications

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Recent developments in the Internet of Things have led to the notion of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) designed to enhance the standard of healthcare for user-specific services in e-healthcare and e-Medical environments. Sensitive data exposure via wireless media has been attributed to a lack of effective authentication. Due to increased mobility, user and device authentication becomes more laborious and necessitates shared keys. Henceforth, an end-to-end lightweight mutual authentication scheme is required to preserve the privacy of the user and the integrity of medical data. Within the framework of these criteria, the present work introduces a novel Remote Authentication Method (RAM) using Autonomous Shared Keys (ASK) for robust service security. Based on user validity and service distributions, this technique produces remote keys. However, information frequency and service length are used to modify the key-sharing process with federated learning that emphasizes the autonomous key decoupling post-service closure. It relies on the device and service span and its average session duration. The authentication is processed using volatile session keys from the healthcare center to the user application, preventing false user injections. Overall, the performance assessment and multivariate analysis with state-of-the-art protocols prove that the proposed ASK-RAM-IMOT is more reliable and suited for IoMT applications, demonstrating its security strength. There is a significant positive impact on authentication time with a reduction of 10.18% on average. The most intriguing correlation is with the session outage and false rate by 10.63% and 12.19% respectively which contributes to the improved service span of 8.02%.

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Ramalingam, P., Pabitha, P. ASK-RAM-IMOT: Autonomous Shared Keys based Remote Authentication Method for Internet of Medical Things Applications. Wireless Pers Commun 131, 273–293 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10428-x

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