Trupil Limbasiya

Trupil Limbasiya, Sanjay K. Sahay, Bharath Sridharan

The usage of different technologies and smart devices helps people to get medical services remotely for multiple benefits. Thus, critical and sensitive data is exchanged between a user and a doctor. When health data is transmitted over a common channel, it becomes essential to preserve various privacy and security properties in the system. Further, the number of users for remote services is increasing day-by-day exponentially, and thus, it is not adequate to deal with all users using the one server due to the verification overhead, server failure, and scalability issues. Thus, researchers proposed various authentication protocols for multi-server architecture, but most of them are vulnerable to different security attacks and require high computational resources during the implementation. To Tackle privacy and security issues using less computational resources, we propose a privacy-preserving mutual authentication and key agreement protocol for a multi-server healthcare system. We discuss the proposed scheme's security analysis and performance results to understand its security strengths and the computational resource requirement, respectively. Further, we do the comparison of security and performance results with recent relevant authentication protocols.

Trupil Limbasiya, Sanjay K. Sahay

Authentication schemes are practised globally to verify the legitimacy of users and servers for the exchange of data in different facilities. Generally, the server verifies a user to provide resources for different purposes. But due to the large network system, the authentication process has become complex and therefore, time-to-time different authentication protocols have been proposed for the multi-server architecture. However, most of the protocols are vulnerable to various security attacks and their performance is not efficient. In this paper, we propose a secure and energy-efficient remote user authentication protocol for multi-server systems. The results show that the proposed protocol is comparatively ~44% more efficient and needs ~38% less communication cost. We also demonstrate that with only two-factor authentication, the proposed protocol is more secure from the earlier related authentication schemes.

Trupil Limbasiya, Debasis Das, Sanjay K. Sahay

The pioneering concept of connected vehicles has transformed the way of thinking for researchers and entrepreneurs by collecting relevant data from nearby objects. However, this data is useful for a specific vehicle only. Moreover, vehicles get a high amount of data (e.g., traffic, safety, and multimedia infotainment) on the road. Thus, vehicles expect adequate storage devices for this data, but it is infeasible to have a large memory in each vehicle. Hence, the vehicular cloud computing (VCC) framework came into the picture to provide a storage facility by connecting a road-side-unit (RSU) with the vehicular cloud (VC). In this, data should be saved in an encrypted form to preserve security, but there is a challenge to search for information over encrypted data. Next, we understand that many of vehicular communication schemes are inefficient for data transmissions due to its poor performance results and vulnerable to different fundamental security attacks. Accordingly, on-device performance is critical, but data damages and secure on-time connectivity are also significant challenges in a public environment. Therefore, we propose reliable data transmission protocols for cutting-edge architecture to search data from the storage, to resist against various security attacks, and provide better performance results. Thus, the proposed data transmission protocol is useful in diverse smart city applications (business, safety, and entertainment) for the benefits of society.