A cluster-based key agreement scheme using keyed hashing for Body Area Networks

Aftab Ali, Sarah Irum, Firdous Kausar, Farrukh Aslam Khan*

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ملخص

In recent years, Body Area Networks (BANs) have gained immense popularity in the domain of healthcare as well as monitoring of soldiers in the battlefield. Security of a BAN is inevitable as we secure the lives of soldiers and patients. In this paper, we propose a security framework using Keyed-Hashing Message Authentication Code (HMAC-MD5) to protect the personal information in a BAN. We assume a network in which nodes sense physiological variables such as electrocardiography (EKG), electroencephalography (EEG), pulse oximeter data, blood pressure and cardiac output. Heterogeneous wireless sensor network is considered which consists of a powerful High-end sensor (H-sensor) and several Low-end sensors (L-sensors). EKG is used for secure communication between nodes as it introduces plug and play capability in BANs. The process is made secure by applying HMAC-MD5 on EKG blocks. Key agreement is done by comparing HMAC of feature blocks between sensors resulting in a more secure network. The analysis is done by calculating the entropy of keys and checking the randomness of EKG data using NIST-randomness testing suite.

اللغة الأصليةEnglish
الصفحات (من إلى)201-214
عدد الصفحات14
دوريةMultimedia Tools and Applications
مستوى الصوت66
رقم الإصدار2
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرPublished - سبتمبر 2013
منشور خارجيًانعم

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