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 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 A Survey on Wireless Body Area Network Sensors and Security Issues

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume-2 (Issue-4) ◽  
pp. 362-368
Author(s):  
Sandeep K S ◽  
Hari Krishnan ◽  
Soumya K N | C R Manjunath ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Security Issues

scholarly journals Equalized Energy Consumption in Wireless Body Area Networks for a Prolonged Network Lifetime

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam El Azhari ◽  
Nadya El Moussaid ◽  
Ahmed Toumanari ◽  
Rachid Latif
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Residual Energy ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Distributed Sensors

The phenomenal advances in electronics contributed to a widespread use of distributed sensors in wireless communications. A set of biosensors can be deployed or implanted in the human body to form a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), where various WBAN PHY layers are utilized. The WBAN allows the measurement of physiological data, which is forwarded by the gateway to the base station for analysis purposes. The main issue in conceiving a WBAN communication mechanism is to manage the residual energy of sensors. The mobile agent system has been widely applied for surveillance applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It consists in dispatching one or more mobile agents simultaneously to collect data, while following a predetermined optimum itinerary. The continuous use of the optimal itinerary leads to a rapid depletion of sensor nodes batteries, which minimizes the network lifetime. This paper presents a new algorithm to equalize the energy consumption among sensor motes. The algorithm exploits all the available paths towards the destination and classifies them with respect to the end-to-end delay and the overall energy consumption. The proposed algorithm performs better compared to the optimal routing path. It increases the network lifetime to the maximum by postponing routing of data via the most-recently used path, and it also maintains data delivery within the delay interval threshold.

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 Priority Based Data Transmission for WBAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 3671
Author(s):  
Jay Manalastas Ventura ◽  
Arnel Fajardo ◽  
Ruji Medina
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Network ◽  
Routing Protocol ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
End To End Delay ◽  
End To End ◽  
Qos Metrics

<span>Wireless Body Area Sensor Network (WBASN) or Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a growing field in healthcare applications. It enables remote monitoring of patient’s physiological data through wireless communication. It is composed of sensor network which collects physiological data from the patient. There are several issues concerning WBAN such as security, power, routing protocol to address QoS metrics (reliability, end-to-end delay, and energy efficiency), etc. The focus of the study is the issue on different QoS metrics. There were several QoS aware routing protocol that has been proposed which implements multiple queues for different types of data. However, one issue on multiple queue system is starvation, end-to-end delay, and reliability. The study proposed an efficient priority queue based data transmission that improves the end-to-end delay, reliability, and queuing delay of QoS aware routing protocol.</span>

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 Bargaining Solution-Based Resource Allocation Scheme for Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungwook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Bargaining Solution ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Servers

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging technology that has enormous potentials for continuous health monitoring of various diseases. For different medical and healthcare applications, the collected physiological data from multiple WBANs are further transmitted to the remote medical cloud servers. However, several technical issues and challenges are associated with the integration of WBANs and cloud computing services. In this study, we develop a new cloud-assisted WBAN control scheme to effectively use the limited system resource. By employing the main ideas of Generalized Gini and Choquet bargaining solutions, our approach unfolds into dual stages of bargaining processes while increasing the flexibility and adaptability. In particular, we consider the unique features of cloud-assisted WBAN applications and provide a generalized fair-efficient solution for the resource allocation problem. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that we can verify the superiority of our proposed scheme over the existing protocols. Lastly, major further challenges and future research directions about the cloud-assisted WBAN paradigm are summarized and discussed.

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