CCS '99 Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Communications of the ACM
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice
Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
The handbook of ad hoc wireless networks
The handbook of ad hoc wireless networks
Error Correcting Coding and Security for Data Networks: Analysis of the Superchannel Concept
Error Correcting Coding and Security for Data Networks: Analysis of the Superchannel Concept
A novel biometrics method to secure wireless body area sensor networks for telemedicine and m-health
IEEE Communications Magazine
TIMAR: an efficient key management scheme for ubiquitous health care environments
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
Vitacode: electrocardiogram representation for biometric cryptography in body area networks
ICUFN'09 Proceedings of the first international conference on Ubiquitous and future networks
On supporting anonymity in a BAN biometric framework
DSP'09 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Digital Signal Processing
PSKA: usable and secure key agreement scheme for body area networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
BodySec: synchronized key distribution using biometric slots for wireless body sensor networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
A survey on wireless body area networks
Wireless Networks
Quality of service regulation in secure body area networks: system modeling and adaptation methods
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on towards the connected body: advances in body communications
Compressed ECG Biometric: A Fast, Secured and Efficient Method for Identification of CVD Patient
Journal of Medical Systems
Usable protection to healthcare application
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research
WISA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Information Security Applications
Mobile Information Systems - Emerging Wireless and Mobile Technologies
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As electronic communications become more prevalent, mobile and universal, the threats of data compromises also accordingly loom larger. In the context of a body sensor network (BSN), which permits pervasive monitoring of potentially sensitive medical data, security and privacy concerns are particularly important. It is a challenge to implement traditional security infrastructures in these types of lightweight networks since they are by design limited in both computational and communication resources. A key enabling technology for secure communications in BSN's has emerged to be biometrics. In this work, we present two complementary approaches which exploit physiological signals to address security issues: (1) a resource-efficient key management system for generating and distributing cryptographic keys to constituent sensors in a BSN; (2) a novel data scrambling method, based on interpolation and random sampling, that is envisioned as a potential alternative to conventional symmetric encryption algorithms for certain types of data. The former targets the resource constraints in BSN's, while the latter addresses the fuzzy variability of biometric signals, which has largely precluded the direct application of conventional encryption. Using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals as biometrics, the resulting computer simulations demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of these methods for delivering secure communications in BSN's.