Physically secure and fog-enabled lightweight authentication scheme for WBAN
摘要
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are vital for healthcare, fitness monitoring, and remote patient care by means of combining sensors and wearable technologies for data collection and transmission. However, ensuring secure communication in WBANs remains a critical challenge and is generally insecure against the manipulation of data, breaches of privacy, and unauthorized access. Current authentication methods are vulnerable to security risks and have a significant computational burden. The above-said shortcomings are addressed by proposing a lightweight, physically secure, fog-enabled authentication scheme that guarantees data privacy and system resilience by integrating Physically Unclonable Functions (