A Novel Lightweight Authentication Scheme for RFID-Based Healthcare Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been integrated into legacy healthcare systems for the purpose of improving healthcare processes. As one of the key technologies of IoT, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied to offer services like patient monitoring, drug administration,...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-08, Vol.20 (17), p.4846
Main Authors: Zhu, Feng, Li, Peng, Xu, He, Wang, Ruchuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authentication
Communication
Computer Security
Confidentiality
Delivery of Health Care
Health care
healthcare systems
Humans
Internet of Things
Lightweight
Medical errors
Privacy
Radio frequency identification
Radio Frequency Identification Device
security
Telemedicine
Wireless access points
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Summary:The Internet of Things (IoT) has been integrated into legacy healthcare systems for the purpose of improving healthcare processes. As one of the key technologies of IoT, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied to offer services like patient monitoring, drug administration, and medical asset tracking. However, people have concerns about the security and privacy of RFID-based healthcare systems, which require a proper solution. To solve the problem, recently in 2019, Fan et al. proposed a lightweight RFID authentication scheme in the IEEE Network. They claimed that their scheme can resist various attacks in RFID systems with low implementation cost, and thus is suitable for RFID-based healthcare systems. In this article, our contributions mainly consist of two parts. First, we analyze the security of Fan et al.'s scheme and find out its security vulnerabilities. Second, we propose a novel lightweight authentication scheme to overcome these security weaknesses. The security analysis shows that our scheme can satisfy the necessary security requirements. Besides, the performance evaluation demonstrates that our scheme is of low cost. Thus, our scheme is well-suited for practical RFID-based healthcare systems.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s20174846