TY  - JOUR
TI  - Critical Security Mechanism Designed for Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks using Hierarchical Cloud Server
AU  - P. Lokesh Kumar Reddy
AU  -  Dr. K. Ramesh Reddy
JO  - International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology
PB  - Technoscience Academy
DA  - 2019/04/30
PY  - 2019
DO  - https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT195214
UR  - https://ijsrcseit.com/CSEIT195214
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 117	
EP  - 129
AB  - The rapid advancement of pervasive computing, IoT and wearable systems, given rise to low-power internet-based systems in elimination of distance complications by application of Wireless Sensor Networks, which consists of sensor, server and Cloud servers to sense various environmental readings and monitor the condition based on the data. Due to the association of vital data, and transferring it over an insecure and public communication channel, there is a critical prerequisite for sensor authentication, data integrity and data privacy. In this context many researchers had proposed various schemes for user authentication and secure data transmission over Cloud server. In this paper we proposed a three-factor user authentication and key agreement protocol for cloud server and claimed that the proposed protocol is efficient, secure and lightweight. The experimental analysis shows that the proposed scheme is resistance to well-known cryptographic attacks. Though the proposed scheme resists major cryptographic attacks, after in-depth analysis, we demonstrate that the scheme overcome many security pitfalls such as failure to resist replay attack, known session-specific temporary information attack, and failure to resist stolen-verifier attack.