An Industrial Wireless Sensors Networks for Securing Anonymous Mutual Authentication Protocol in Real-Time Data Access

When it comes to energy consumption, coverage, connection, and security, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) are a subset of WSNs that are only beginning to emerge. Since the nodes are linked to the internet as well as are often located in an unsupervised setting with few human interventions, privacy and security provide a significant challenge in IWSN. Having access to data in real time from predetermined sensor nodes is crucial for IWSN. This procedure necessitates the usage of a user authentication system. Lightweight, private, and mutual user authentication is proposed for IWSNs in this study so that only users with reliable devices are granted access. As a result, we took into account the sensor nodes' physical layer security in the suggested design. We demonstrate that the proposed system can preserve user anonymity even if an attacker obtains control of a sensor node. The proposed protocol uses primitive arithmetic operations (PUFs), XORs, with one-way crypto hash functions. The suggested technique is safe and effective, even with the constrained resources of IWSN sensors, as shown by the results of the security and efficiency analyses.