Research Article
A Lightweight and Secure Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks
Table 1
Notation and its description.
| Notation | Description |
| Di | The ith doctor | DIDi | The identity of the ith doctor | PKDi | The ith doctor’s public key | RC | The registration center | PKRC | The public key of RC | Pj | The jth patient | PIDj | The 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 |
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