A Security suite for wireless body area networks

Sampangi, Raghav V. and Dey, Saurabh and Urs, Shalini R. and Sampalli, Srinivas (2012) A Security suite for wireless body area networks. International Journal of Network Security and Its Applications, 4 (1). ISSN 0974-9330

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Abstract

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have gained a lot of research attention in recent years since theyoffer tremendous benefits for remote health monitoring and continuous, real-time patient care. However,as with any wireless communication, data security in WBANs is a challenging design issue. Since such networks consist of small sensors placed on the human body, they impose resource and computational restrictions, thereby making the use of sophisticated and advanced encryption algorithms infeasible. This calls for the design of algorithms with a robust key generation / management scheme, which are reasonably resource optimal. This paper presents a security suite for WBANs, comprised of IAMKeys, an independent and adaptive key management scheme for improving the security of WBANs, and KEMESIS, a key management scheme for security in inter-sensor communication. The novelty of these schemes lies in the use of a randomly generated key for encrypting each data frame that is generated independently at both the sender and the receiver, eliminating the need for any key exchange. The simplicity of the encryption scheme, combined with the adaptability in key management makes the schemes simple, yet secure. The proposed algorithms are validated by performance analysis

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	K Library and Information Science > Library and Information Science
Divisions:	Department of > International School of Information Management
Depositing User:	C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2019 05:59
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2019 05:59
URI:	http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/7295

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