scholarly journals Security Analysis of Wireless BAN in e-Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Romina Muka ◽  
Sule Yildrim-Yayilgan ◽  
Kozeta Sevrani
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Health Technologies

The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has gained popularity as a new technology for e-Health, and is considered as one of the key research areas in computer science and healthcare applications. WBAN collects patients’ data, monitors constantly their physiological parameters, using small implantable or wearable sensors, and communicates these data using wireless communication techniques in short range. WBAN is playing a huge role in improving the quality of healthcare. Still, due to sensitive and concurrent nature of e-Heath systems, current research has showed that designers must take into considerations the security and privacy protection of the data collected by a WBAN to safeguard patients from different exploits or malicious attacks, since e-Health technologies are increasingly connected to the Internet via wireless communications. In this paper we outline the most important security requirements for WBANs. Furthermore, we discuss key security threats to avoid. Finally, we conclude with a summary of security mechanisms to follow that address security and privacy concerns of WBANs, and need to be explored in an increasingly connected healthcare world.

scholarly journals A Review on Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Vineeta Shrivastava ◽  
Mayank Namdev
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Communication Architecture ◽  
High Level ◽  
Privacy Issues

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a new trend in the technology that provides remote mechanism to monitor and collect patient’s health record data using wearable sensors. It is widely recognized that a high level of system security and privacy play a key role in protecting these data when being used by the healthcare professionals and during storage to ensure that patient’s records are kept safe from intruder’s danger. It is therefore of great interest to discuss security and privacy issues in WBANs. In this paper, we reviewed WBAN communication architecture, security and privacy requirements and security threats and the primary challenges in WBANs to these systems based on the latest standards and publications. This paper also covers the state-of-art security measures and research in WBAN.

scholarly journals A Review on Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Vineeta Shrivastava ◽  
Mayank Namdev
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Communication Architecture ◽  
High Level ◽  
Privacy Issues

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a new trend in the technology that provides remote mechanism to monitor and collect patient’s health record data using wearable sensors. It is widely recognized that a high level of system security and privacy play a key role in protecting these data when being used by the healthcare professionals and during storage to ensure that patient’s records are kept safe from intruder’s danger. It is therefore of great interest to discuss security and privacy issues in WBANs. In this paper, we reviewed WBAN communication architecture, security and privacy requirements and security threats and the primary challenges in WBANs to these systems based on the latest standards and publications. This paper also covers the state-of-art security measures and research in WBAN.

A Comprehensive Overview of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nourchene Bradai ◽  
Lamia Chaari ◽  
Lotfi Kamoun
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Mac Layers

In recent years, the wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as a new technology for e-healthcare applications. The WBANs promise to revolutionize health monitoring. However, this technology remains in the first stages and much research is underway. Designers of such systems face a number of challenging tasks, as they need to address conflicting requirements. This includes managing the network, the data, while maximizing the autonomy of each network node. Reducing the consumption of a node, the management of network resources and security insurance are therefore major challenges. This paper presents a survey of body area networks including the WBANs challenges and -architecture, the most important body sensor devices, as well as sensor board hardware and platforms. Further, various applications of WBANs in the medical field are discussed, as well as wireless communications standards and technologies. The newest researches related to WBANs at physical and MAC layers are presented. Finally the paper identifies data security and privacy in WBANs as well as open research issues.

A Comprehensive Overview of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nourchene Bradai ◽  
Lamia Chaari ◽  
Lotfi Kamoun
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Body Area Networks ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Mac Layers

In recent years, the wireless body area network (WBAN) has emerged as a new technology for e-healthcare applications. The WBANs promise to revolutionize health monitoring. However, this technology remains in the first stages and much research is underway. Designers of such systems face a number of challenging tasks, as they need to address conflicting requirements. This includes managing the network, the data, while maximizing the autonomy of each network node. Reducing the consumption of a node, the management of network resources and security insurance are therefore major challenges. This paper presents a survey of body area networks including the WBANs challenges and -architecture, the most important body sensor devices, as well as sensor board hardware and platforms. Further, various applications of WBANs in the medical field are discussed, as well as wireless communications standards and technologies. The newest researches related to WBANs at physical and MAC layers are presented. Finally the paper identifies data security and privacy in WBANs as well as open research issues.

scholarly journals Secure Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 4627-4634
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Secure Routing ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Research Issues

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is the most important recent trending approaches to provide Medical care for patients through remote monitoring and data collection using body sensors. It's a well-known system offering a high standard of security and also privacy. Therefore, it provides us a very big interest for discussing the issues of privacy and security in WBAN. In this paper, the architecture of WBAN communication network, various safety threats and it’s measures, several types of research methodologies to secure health records and research issues are reviewed on the basis of various secure routing protocols of recent publications. Also, this paper tabulated the detailed comparison study of analysis of security requirements, resistance to various attacks, computing costs during authentication and running time between the application provider and the customer. At last, open fields are investigated for future research.

scholarly journals Security of Broadcast Authentication for Cloud-Enabled Wireless Medical Sensor Devices in 5G Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Abdullah Al Hayajneh ◽  
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan ◽  
Ian McAndrew
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Authentication Protocols ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
5G Mobile Networks

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has become one of the fastest growing technologies nowadays. There are some characteristic limitations in WBAN, especially when it comes to health-related applications that are used to monitor human bodies. To overcome and mitigate theses limitations in WBAN, cloud computing technology can be combined with the WBAN as a solution. We can classify the WBAN sensors in the cloud-based WBAN into i) nodes that monitor the human body and ii) WBAN actuators that take action upon the order commands from the medical staff. The biggest concern is the security of the medical commands to the WBAN actuators because if they are altered or tampered with, there can be serious consequences. Therefore, authentication plays an important role in securing cloud-based WBANs. In this article, we explore the security and privacy issues of Wireless Body Area Network combined with Mobile Cloud Computing (wMCC) with 5G mobile networks and investigate public-key based security solutions. At first, the paper presents a detailed description of wMCC architecture, discussing its main advantages and limitations. The main features of 5G mobile network are then presented, focusing on the advancement it may provide if integrated with wMCC systems. We further investigate the security issues of wMCC with 5G mobile networks while emphasizing the challenges that face this system in healthcare applications. The authentication techniques in wMCC are then classified and discussed with the feasibility of deploying practical solutions. Finally, we outline the main challenges and metrics of an ideal authentication protocols to be used in wMCC with 5G. The metrics are helpful for researchers in this field to evaluate, analyze, and compare the authentication protocols to decide the suitable application for each protocol.

scholarly journals A Lightweight and Secure Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Junsong Zhang ◽  
Qikun Zhang ◽  
Zhigang Li ◽  
Xianling Lu ◽  
Yong Gan
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area

The recent development of wireless body area network (WBAN) technology plays a significant role in the modern healthcare system for patient health monitoring. However, owing to the open nature of the wireless channel and the sensitivity of the transmitted messages, the data security and privacy threats in WBAN have been widely discussed and must be solved. In recent years, many authentication protocols had been proposed to provide security and privacy protection in WBANs. However, many of these schemes are not computationally efficient in the authentication process. Inspired by these studies, a lightweight and secure anonymous authentication protocol is presented to provide data security and privacy for WBANs. The proposed scheme adopts a random value and hash function to provide user anonymity. Besides, the proposed protocol can provide user authentication without a trusted third party, which makes the proposed scheme have no computational bottleneck in terms of architecture. Finally, the security and performance analyses demonstrate that the proposed scheme can meet security requirements with low computational and communication costs.

Cloud-Based Adaptable Energy-Efficient Medium-Access Control Protocol for Healthcare Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
M. J. Carmel Mary Belinda ◽  
E. Kannan ◽  
M. Hemanth Chakravarthy
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Medium Access Control Protocol ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Patient Health

A remote mechanism-based new technology called wireless body area network (WBAN) is provided to observe and collect patient health record data with the aid of some wearable sensors. It provides privacy for healthcare professionals and an excellent degree of system security and also plays a major task in storing and ensuring the patient's records. A novel focus for preventing resources of wireless sensor network is implemented to bring a convenient plat form for the healthcare professionals. The adaptable energy efficient MAC protocol is presented in this chapter for the preservations of energy, and its result is discussed for the healthcare analysis.

Enhancing the Security and Privacy of WBAN-Based Distributed Storage Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Sufyan T. Al-Janabi ◽  
Ali J. Dawood ◽  
Abeer Dawood Salman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Information ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Distributed Storage ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Single Server ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Distributed Storage Systems

The sensors of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) that are spread inside and outside of a human body collect medical information and transfer it into the back-end server that is managed by the hospital or medical center; where the professionals analyze this data. This server is considered a very critical device because it has sensitive information. Therefore, the security and privacy of that server must be defended. Networked storage systems have become an efficient way to use in WBAN. It can be divided into two types: Centralized storage systems and Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs). Storing data at a single server is simple way but it can lead to a single point of failure (whether being a normal failure or due to security attacks). On the other hand, the structure of DSS can tolerate the openness and failure. In this paper, enhanced security and privacy DSS system is developed using public key cryptography to store patient information. The storage of information is distributed among individual nodes spread in the network and simultaneously the security requirements (like confidentiality, reliability, authentication, and dynamic integrity) are achieved by utilizing more powerful algorithms. The main phases of operation of the proposed system are described. Also, the results of system prototype simulation are discussed at the end of the paper.

scholarly journals A Secure Two Factor Authentication Protocol for Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area Network Using Blockchain

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Jacqualine Cristhy Ujil
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Secure Protocol ◽  
Confidential Data ◽  
To Come

The recent advancements in technologies have allowed us to come so far and resulted in many breakthroughs. One of the various examples is internet of things, wireless communication, and cloud computing which can be useful if utilize in many fields. In the field of medical, these advancements allowed any medical centres to improve patient’s health remotely simply by using wearable devices on patients that then will amalgamate with the wireless body area network (WBAN). However, WBAN has limited resources which limits its services. To solve this problem, cloud computing is used to provide storage and computation. Unfortunately, these methods allow the system to be vulnerable to various malicious attacks. Attackers can easily gain access to the medical records of patients hence the integrity of security and privacy of confidential data have been compromised. In this paper, we presented a secure protocol for cloud-assisted database using multi-factor authentication and blockchain as an added measure to ensure security. Accordingly, we prove that the presented scheme offers more security and privacy. Therefore, it is the most practical method to be applied in the medical field.

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