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A Lightweight Mutual Authentication with Wearable Device in Location-Based Mobile Edge Computing

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In recent years, the proportion of elderly population in various countries has gradually increased. Increasing with age, it can entail illness. When these diseases are sudden, the elderly often die because there is no immediate treatment. Elderly care has become an important issue. According to this issue, we want to monitor the physiological data of the elderly, such as heartbeat, blood pressure, etc., through wearable devices. Once an abnormal condition is detected, the wearable device can be used to immediately request treatment from a nearby clinic or hospital. In order to improve the network quality of this service, we use the architecture of the mobile edge computing. The mobile edge computing provides features such as immediacy, low latency, proximity etc. However, the process of data transmission on the mobile edge computing has the risk of being stolen and identity authentication is also an important issue. Therefore, we propose a secure protocol based on cryptography to protect personal information with lightweight authentication. The proposed scheme aims to achieve mutual authentication, non-repudiation, integrity, user privacy, and defend against known attacks.

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Acknowledgements

This research is partially sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC, under Contract No. MOST 108-2221-E-324-013 and the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, under the project: “The R&D and the cultivation of talent for Health-promotion products”.

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  1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China

    Chin-Ling Chen

  2. School of Information Engineering, Changchun Sci-Tech University, Changchun, 130600, Jilin Province, China

    Chin-Ling Chen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, 413, Taiwan

    Chin-Ling Chen & Yong-Yuan Deng

  4. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, 413, Taiwan

    Mao-Lun Chiang & Ching-Cheng Liu

  5. Department of Information Communication, Hsing Wu University, New Taipei City, 244, Taiwan

    Hui-Ching Hsieh

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Abbreviations are used in this paper and listed as follows:

3G/5G

Third generation mobile networks/fifth generation mobile networks

LTE

Long term evolution

MEC

Mobile edge computing

IoT

Internet of things

BS

Base station

CA

Certificate authority

IMEI

The international mobile equipment identity

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Chen, CL., Chiang, ML., Hsieh, HC. et al. A Lightweight Mutual Authentication with Wearable Device in Location-Based Mobile Edge Computing. Wireless Pers Commun 113, 575–598 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07240-2

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