Research Article

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

Table 5

Execution time of the related pairing-based operations.

SchemesTime of generating the certificateTime of verifying the certificate

Wu et al.’s scheme3Th + 4Tmul + Ten4Th + 4Tmul + Tpair + Ten
Shen et al.’s schemeTh + 3TmulTh + 4Tpair + Ten + 2Tmul
Das et al.’s scheme5Th + 2Ten4Th + 2Ten
Liu et al.’s scheme2Tpair + 3Th + Tmul3Tpair + 3Th + 3Tmul
Proposed schemeTh + Tmul + TpairTh + 2Tmul + Tpair