A secure data authentication in wireless body area network for health monitoring using electrocardiogram-based key agreement
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) comprises of a set of biomedical sensors, which are implanted into or placed around a human body to serve a variety of network applications constantly. One of the applications, the ubiquitous health monitoring, has improved the ability of healthcare providers to...
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| Language: | English |
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Praise Worthy Prize
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4313/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4313/1/AJ%202016%20%2841%29.pdf |
| Summary: | Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) comprises of a set of biomedical sensors,
which are implanted into or placed around a human body to serve a variety of network
applications constantly. One of the applications, the ubiquitous health monitoring, has improved
the ability of healthcare providers to deliver appropriate treatments to the patients either in
hospitals or at homes. As the need of this application increases, several security issues also arise
due to the nature of open wireless medium. Moreover, implementing an effective security
mechanism uses a significant part of the available energy in a WBAN, whereby the sensors have
limited resource constraints in terms of power consumption and memory space. Thus, this paper
presents a new authentication protocol model that utilizes Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal as
biometric as well as cryptographic key to ensure that the transmitted data are originated from the
required WBAN. Due to the uniqueness and the permanence property of ECG signal, the proposed
model is developed to achieve optimal security performance and required lightweight manners of
to the resource-limited biomedical sensors. The simulation system is implemented based on the
process of an improved fuzzy vault scheme with a new error correction algorithm, which results in
reducing computational complexity, communication load and storage overhead when compared to
several previous work |
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