Title :
Biometric access control for wireless nodes
Author :
Althobaiti, O. ; Al-Rodhaan, Mznah ; Al-Dhelaan, Abdullah
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
The most important requirements of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) security are confidentiality, authentication and integrity. User authentication is necessary for legitimate access control in WSNs. These sensors have limited processing power, bandwidth, memory and limited communication abilities. Assume that WSN is deployed in a hospital, a university campus, or a smart home, to permit legal users to query and receive the particular response from any of this sensor node of WSN. Significantly, the system must produce authentication method for confirming if the user is legal or not. We present a solution based on biometric for this problem and also adapt it for WSN environment. The proposed protocol involves simple operations and light computations.
Keywords :
authorisation; cryptographic protocols; data integrity; query processing; sensor placement; wireless sensor networks; WSN deployment; bandwidth limitation; biometric access control; confidentiality; cryptographic protocol; data integrity; hospital; legal users; limited communication abilities; memory limitation; query response; smart home; university campus; user authentication; wireless nodes; wireless sensor network; Authentication; Encryption; Iris recognition; Protocols; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Access control; Authentication; Biometric; Cryptography; Security; Wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2012 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sao Carlos
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4793-8
DOI :
10.1109/CASoN.2012.6412397
