Tsu-Yang Wu^1,2, Haozhi Wu², Maoxin Tang³, Saru Kumari⁴, Chien-Ming Chen^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.1, pp. 1715-1732, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065560 - 29 August 2025

Abstract With the rapid development and widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the innovative concept of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has emerged, ushering in a new era of intelligent transportation. Since vehicles are mobile entities, they move across different domains and need to communicate with the Roadside Unit (RSU) in various regions. However, open environments are highly susceptible to becoming targets for attackers, posing significant risks of malicious attacks. Therefore, it is crucial to design a secure authentication protocol to ensure the security of communication between vehicles and RSUs, particularly in scenarios where More >

Yanan Liu¹, Lei Cao^1,*, Zheng Zhang^1,*, Ge Li², Shuo Qiu¹, Suhao Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.3, pp. 4997-5019, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066836 - 30 July 2025

Abstract As the adoption of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) grows, ensuring secure communication between smart vehicles and remote application servers (APPs) has become a critical challenge. While existing solutions focus on various aspects of security, gaps remain in addressing both high security requirements and the resource-constrained nature of VANET environments. This paper proposes an extended-Kerberos protocol that integrates Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) for authentication and key agreement, offering a comprehensive solution to the security challenges in VANETs. The protocol facilitates mutual authentication and secure key agreement between vehicles and APPs, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of vehicle-to-network… More >

Guojun Wang^1,2, Qi Liu^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.3, pp. 4471-4488, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047669 - 26 March 2024

Abstract With the rapid advancement in exploring perceptual interactions and digital twins, metaverse technology has emerged to transcend the constraints of space-time and reality, facilitating remote AI-based collaboration. In this dynamic metasystem environment, frequent information exchanges necessitate robust security measures, with Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) serving as the primary line of defense to ensure communication security. However, traditional AKA protocols fall short in meeting the low-latency requirements essential for synchronous interactions within the metaverse. To address this challenge and enable nearly latency-free interactions, a novel low-latency AKA protocol based on chaotic maps is proposed. This… More >

Tsu-Yang Wu¹, Qian Meng¹, Lei Yang¹, Saru Kumari², Matin Pirouz^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.1, pp. 317-341, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019595 - 24 August 2022

Abstract The development of the Internet of Things has facilitated the rapid development of various industries. With the improvement in people’s living standards, people’s health requirements are steadily improving. However, owing to the scarcity of medical and health care resources in some areas, the demand for remote surgery has gradually increased. In this paper, we investigate remote surgery in the healthcare environment. Surgeons can operate robotic arms to perform remote surgery for patients, which substantially facilitates successful surgeries and saves lives. Recently, Kamil et al. proposed a secure protocol for surgery in the healthcare environment. However, More >

Mamoon M. Saeed¹, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan^2,*, Rosilah Hassan² , Rania Mokhtar³ , Rashid A. Saeed^3,4, Elsadig Saeid¹, Manoj Gupta⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5551-5568, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017338 - 11 October 2021

Abstract

The fifth generation (5G) system is the forthcoming generation of the mobile communication system. It has numerous additional features and offers an extensively high data rate, more capacity, and low latency. However, these features and applications have many problems and issues in terms of security, which has become a great challenge in the telecommunication industry. This paper aimed to propose a solution to preserve the user identity privacy in the 5G system that can identify permanent identity by using Variable Mobile Subscriber Identity, which randomly changes and does not use the permanent identity between the user

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Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno¹, Mahdi Nikooghadam¹, Rahmat Budiarto^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3495-3512, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.019051 - 24 August 2021

Abstract Tele-medical information system provides an efficient and convenient way to connect patients at home with medical personnel in clinical centers. In this system, service providers consider user authentication as a critical requirement. To address this crucial requirement, various types of validation and key agreement protocols have been employed. The main problem with the two-way authentication of patients and medical servers is not built with thorough and comprehensive analysis that makes the protocol design yet has flaws. This paper analyzes carefully all aspects of security requirements including the perfect forward secrecy in order to develop an… More >

Xiangwei Meng, Jianbo Xu^*, Xiaohe Wu, Zhechong Wang

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 107-114, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2020.09901 - 18 December 2020

Abstract Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of sensitive data to the human body, which is lightweight and mobile. WBANs transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel, which makes it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop and modify the messages, thus posing a severe threat to the security of the messages. Therefore, it is essential to put in place authentication and key agreement between different communication nodes in WBANs. In this paper, a lightweight and secure authenticated key agreement protocol in wireless body area networks is designed. It is More >