Body sensor network security: an identity-based cryptography approach

  • Authors:
  • Chiu C. Tan;Haodong Wang;Sheng Zhong;Qun Li

  • Affiliations:
  • College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA;College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA;State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;Computer Science and Engineering, Williamsburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A body sensor network (BSN), is a network of sensors deployed on a person's body, usually for health care monitoring. Since the sensors collect personal medical data, security and privacy are important components in a body sensor network. At the same time, the collected data has to readily available in the event of an emergency. In this paper, we present IBE-Lite, a lightweight identity-based encryption suitable for sensors, and developed protocols based on IBE-Lite for a BSN.