uKeMa: An Ultra-Lightweight Key Management and Authentication Scheme for Wearable Ad Hoc Networks Based on Body Language

Abstract:

Wearable consumer electronics such as Google glasses, Apple iWatch, Nike Shoes have been envisioned as next consuming hot spot. It invokes a large amount of applications in the personal healthy, personal safety, and digital entertainment. To save power consumption, those wearable devices usually connect to Internet via a smart phone that performs as a gateway. To avoid unauthorized access from unfriendly devices, it is desirable to encrypt the personal data in the communications of wearable devices. Therefore, the keys for encryption and integrity are required. In this paper, we make the first attempt to solve both key management and authentication together for wearable devices in an ultra-lightweight manner. We propose a scheme called uKeMa that can provide key generation, key updating and authentication for wearable devices with ultra-lightweight power consumption.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 596)
• Pages: 986-989
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.596.986
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Yin Hui Xie*
• Keywords: Authentication, Key Management, Wearable Ad Hoc Networks, Wearable Computing

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