The forthcoming communication networks for public safety authorities rely on the fifth
generation (5G) of mobile networking technologies. Police officers, paramedics, border …

Smart healthcare plays an important role in contemporary society while its security and
privacy issues remain inevitable challenges. Authenticated key agreement (AKA) …

In this work, we propose a novel sidechain structure via an optimized two-way peg protocol
for device authentication in the smart community in order to overcome the limitations of …

Smart healthcare overcomes the limitations of time and space, allowing users to access
medical and health services anywhere and anytime, thus improving the quality and …

With the rocketing progress of the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication technology,
identity-based authenticated key agreement (ID-AKA) protocol performs an increasingly …

Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a timely complement of cloud-based AI. By introducing
intelligence to the edge, it alleviates privacy concerns of streaming and storing data to the …

Identity-based authenticated key exchange (ID-AKE) allows two parties (whose identities are
just their public keys) to agree on a shared session key over open channels. At ESORICS …

Internet of Things (IoT) applications have been increasingly developed. Authenticated key
agreement (AKA) plays an essential role in secure communication in IoT applications …

In the new paradigm of blockchain-powered intelligent edge, the key agreement is a
significant problem that has not been extensively studied so far. Existing key agreement …

E-Health applications generally involve human users' privacy information such as identity
and medical data. To protect these data, authenticated key exchange (AKE) protocols are …