ESMGB: Efficient and secure modified group-based AKA protocol for maritime communication networks

Abstract

Maritime communication network is one of the applications in wireless networks to establish the communication among the vessels and overcome the communication complexities between them. However, the existing maritime network is susceptible to various known attacks. To mitigate the congenital vulnerabilities, the efficient authentication protocol for secure group (EAPSG) communication was proposed but it fails to overcome all the security weakness. In this paper, we show that the EAPSG protocol suffers from redirection attack, DoS attack, and high bandwidth consumption. Later, we illustrate the countermeasure of identified attacks. We modified the EAPSG protocol and propose efficient and secure modified group-based (ESMGB) AKA protocol for the maritime communication network. The formal verification of the proposed protocol is performed using AVISPA tool. The analysis shows that the protocol successfully avoids all the identified attacks. The quantitative analysis of the proposed protocol shows less communication and computation overhead compared to existing protocols. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018.