Research Article

A Lightweight and Secure Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

Table 1

Notation and its description.

NotationDescription

DiThe ith doctor
DIDiThe identity of the ith doctor
PKDiThe ith doctor’s public key
RCThe registration center
PKRCThe public key of RC
PjThe jth patient
PIDjThe identity of the jth patient
h (·)A secure hash function, where
H (·)A hash function, where , in which l is the length of the string
ê (·, ·)A bilinear map
||String concatenation operation
The bitwise XOR operation