scholarly journals Securing Wireless Body Area Network with Efficient Secure Channel Free and Anonymous Certificateless Signcryption

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Fazal Noor ◽  
Turki A. Kordy ◽  
Ahmad B. Alkhodre ◽  
Oussama Benrhouma ◽  
Adnan Nadeem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Public Verifiability ◽  
Wireless Environment ◽  
Health Application ◽  
Secure Channel

In the last few years, the wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as an appealing and viable option in the e-health application domain. WBAN technology is primarily used to offer continuous screening of health data to patients, independent of their location, time, or activity. A WBAN, on the other hand, is vulnerable to different cyberattacks due to the openness of the wireless environment and the privacy of people’s physiological data. A highly efficient and secure cryptographic scheme that can fulfill the needs of resource-constrained WBAN sensors and devices is considered necessary. First, we take a look at the most up-to-date security solutions for WBANs. Then, we go through some of the underlying concerns and challenges with WBAN security. We propose a new framework called secure channel free certificateless signcryption scheme for WBANs based on a hyperelliptic curve that can meet security requirements such as confidentiality, anonymity, integrity, resistance against unauthorized users, unforgeability, public verifiability, forward secrecy, and antireplay attack, all of which can be achieved with low computation and communication costs. The computation cost of the proposed scheme is 3.36 ms, which is much better than its counterpart schemes.

scholarly journals E-PAP: Enhanced Priority Aware Protocol for Reliable Communication in Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 340-343
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of miniaturized sensing nodes and coordinator nodes. These sensing nodes are placed in, on and around the body for uninterrupted monitoring of physiological data for medical applications. The main application carrier of WBAN is the human body and due to human body movement and physiological changes, the WBAN traffic fluctuates greatly. This network traffic fluctuation requires good network adaptability. In addition to traffic fluctuations, energy consumption is another key problem with WBANs as sensing nodes are very small in size. This paper design a reliable protocol by extending the MAC protocol for reducing energy consumption, PAP algorithm to decide data transmission rate and JOAR algorithm to select the optimize path for the data transmission. The performance of the algorithm outperforms other state of art algorithms to shows its significance.

scholarly journals Design and Simulation of Lightweight Identity Authentication Mechanism in Body Area Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jianglong Yang ◽  
Wanlin Yang ◽  
Huwei Liu ◽  
Li Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Identity Authentication ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Authentication Mechanism

Wearable medical devices rely on the human body to form a small LAN around the human body, called body area network (BAN). Users can use these devices to monitor the changes of various body indicators in real time. The physiological data involved in this process belongs to personal privacy. Therefore, the security requirements of BAN are relatively high, and its current research focus is on authentication mechanisms. To meet the requirements of security and resource consumption of BAN, this paper proposes a lightweight identity authentication mechanism that meets the characteristics of BAN resource constraints. Based on the characteristics of BAN, a simple and mature star topology structure is applied to establish the network model of BAN. For the human body in normal situations and emergencies, the corresponding authentication mechanism and encryption and decryption method of physiological data are designed by using the physical unclonable function (PUF) and cloud database, physiological data, and cross-correlation algorithm. Furthermore, the formal and informal security analysis of the designed authentication mechanism proves that the authentication mechanism designed in this paper has certain security, and the lightweight authentication mechanism is simulated and evaluated. The experimental results show that compared with the benchmarking mechanism, the authentication mechanism designed in this paper solves more security problems and has certain advantages in terms of calculation cost, communication cost, and energy cost.

scholarly journals A lightweight verifiable outsourced decryption of attribute-based encryption scheme for blockchain-enabled wireless body area network in fog computing

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 155014772090679
Author(s):  
Rui Guo ◽  
Chaoyuan Zhuang ◽  
Huixian Shi ◽  
Yinghui Zhang ◽  
Dong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Fog Computing ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Encryption Scheme ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Outsourced Decryption

Wireless body area network includes some tiny wearable sensors for monitoring the physiological data of user, which has been a promising method of promoting the quality and efficiency greatly in healthcare. The collected physical signs are aggregated into the medical documents and uploaded to cloud server for utilizing by the remote user. As these files are highly sensitive privacy data, there is a vital challenge that constructs a secure and efficient communication architecture in this application scenario. Based on this standpoint, we present a lightweight verifiability ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption protocol with outsourced decryption in this article. Specifically, our construction enjoys the following six features: (1) Although the outsourced decryption enables to save the computation overhead of the data user sharply in an attribute-based encryption scheme, the ciphertext is out of control and the correctness cannot be guaranteed by the data owner. The proposal provides the verifiability of ciphertext that ensures the user to check the correctness efficiently. (2) The size of the ciphertext is constant that is not increased with the complexity of attribute and access structure. (3) For Internet of Things devices, it introduces the fog computing into our protocol for the purpose of low latency and relation interactions, which has virtually saved the bandwidth. (4) With the help of blockchain technique, we encapsulate the hash value of public parameter, original and transformed ciphertext and transformed key into a block, so that the tamper-resistance is facilitated against an adversary from inside and outside the system. (5) In the standard model, we prove that it is selectively chosen-plaintext attack-secure and verifiable provided that the computational bilinear Diffie–Hellman assumption holds. (6) It implements this protocol and shows the result of performance measurement, which indicates a significant reduction on communication and computation costs burden on every entity in wireless body area network.

scholarly journals Real-time Health Monitoring System Using Wireless Body Area Network

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications

Wireless body area network (WBAN) being a sub-domain of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new emerging technology for healthcare applications. A WBAN consists of low-power tiny wireless nodes placed on or around the human body that continuously observe vital health signs of a patient. These sensors are capable of sending information of physiological parameters taken from human body to other devices for diagnosis procedures and prescription. WBAN provides ubiquitous healthcare services and enables greater mobility without restricting human normal activities, as the medical personnel can observe the patient health conditions based on the data received through the wireless network. This research work provides a WBAN based healthcare monitoring system that can provide the electrocardiogram (ECG), heartbeat, and human body temperature information. The wireless transmission of the received data from human body is performed by using Zigbee IEEE802.15.4 communication standard. The physiological data will be communicated to remote medical server where data is stored and analyzed. In case any disease is diagnosed, medical personnel can provide immediate assistance to the patients.

scholarly journals Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Network

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Jamil ◽  
Muhammad Azhar Iqbal ◽  
Rashid Amin ◽  
DoHyeun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Rise ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The recent advancement in information technology and evolving of the (IoT) shifted the traditional medical approach to patient-oriented approach (e.g., Telemedicine/Telemonitoring). IoT permits several services including sensing, processing and communicating information with physical and bio-medical constraints. Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) handles the issues pertaining to the medical purposes in the form of sensor nodes and connected network. The WBAN takes human physiological data as an input to subsequently monitor the patient conditions that are transferred to other IoT components for analysis. Such monitoring and analysis demand a cohesive routing approach to ensure the safe and in-time transfer of data. The temperature rise of bio-medical sensor nodes makes the entire routing operation very crucial because the temperature of implanted nodes rises and ultimately damages body tissues. This needs dispersion in data transmission among different nodes by opting various available routes while avoiding temperature rise. In this paper, we present Adaptive Thermal-Aware Routing algorithm for WBAN. The ATAR is designed to overcome the temperature rise issue of implanted bio-medical sensors nodes. The new protocol is based on Multi-Ring Routing approach to find an alternative route in the case of increasing temperature. The simulation results indicate that proposed protocol is more efficient in terms of temperature rise and throughput than existing approaches.

scholarly journals A Survey on Secure Wireless Body Area Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihong Zou ◽  
Yanhong Xu ◽  
Honggang Wang ◽  
Zhouzhou Li ◽  
Shanzhi Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Implantable Sensors ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Wireless Environment

Combining tiny sensors and wireless communication technology, wireless body area network (WBAN) is one of the most promising fields. Wearable and implantable sensors are utilized for collecting the physiological data to achieve continuously monitoring of people’s physical conditions. However, due to the openness of wireless environment and the significance and privacy of people’s physiological data, WBAN is vulnerable to various attacks; thus, strict security mechanisms are required to enable a secure WBAN. In this article, we mainly focus on a survey on the security issues in WBAN, including securing internal communication in WBAN and securing communication between WBAN and external users. For each part, we discuss and identify the security goals to be achieved. Meanwhile, relevant security solutions in existing research on WBAN are presented and their applicability is analyzed.

scholarly journals New Ray Tracing Method to Investigate the Various Effects on Wave Propagation in Medical Scenario: An Application of Wireless Body Area Network

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Islam ◽  
A. W. Reza ◽  
A. S. M. Z. Kausar ◽  
H. Ramiah
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Ray Tracing ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Received Power ◽  
Tracing Method

The advent of technology with the increasing use of wireless network has led to the development of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) to continuously monitor the change of physiological data in a cost efficient manner. As numerous researches on wave propagation characterization have been done in intrabody communication, this study has given emphasis on the wave propagation characterization between the control units (CUs) and wireless access point (AP) in a hospital scenario. Ray tracing is a tool to predict the rays to characterize the wave propagation. It takes huge simulation time, especially when multiple transmitters are involved to transmit physiological data in a realistic hospital environment. Therefore, this study has developed an accelerated ray tracing method based on the nearest neighbor cell and prior knowledge of intersection techniques. Beside this, Red-Black tree is used to store and provide a faster retrieval mechanism of objects in the hospital environment. To prove the superiority, detailed complexity analysis and calculations of reflection and transmission coefficients are also presented in this paper. The results show that the proposed method is about 1.51, 2.1, and 2.9 times faster than the Object Distribution Technique (ODT), Space Volumetric Partitioning (SVP), and Angular Z-Buffer (AZB) methods, respectively. To show the various effects on received power in 60 GHz frequency, few comparisons are made and it is found that on average −9.44 dBm, −8.23 dBm, and −9.27 dBm received power attenuations should be considered when human, AP, and CU move in a given hospital scenario.

Wireless Body Area Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Kargar ◽  
Samaneh Ghasemi ◽  
Omolbanin Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Low Voltage ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Vulnerability Evaluation ◽  
Different Levels

The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) promises a great revolution in the field of electronic health technology in the future. These types of networks are, in fact, collections of low-priced small sensors with low voltage and computational power as well as insufficient energy capacitors which are located on the human body. As the wireless body area network should send the critical information gathered from the patient's body to the physician, the hospital, or the emergency for a supervision in real time, it needs strong mechanisms to protect the security and personal limits of the patient in order to avoid damaging invasions to the system and minimize the system vulnerability. Evaluation of previous works in WBAN security show different levels of threats and security solutions must be considered in accordance with each level. This paper aims at studying current methods of the wireless body area network and considering the levels, evaluation of the security requirements and existing threats. Furthermore, the paper is an attempt to present security solutions to improve the current status of the wireless body area network.

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