Analysis of Attacks and Security Requirements for Wireless Body Area Networks - A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Networks are gaining popularity in healthcare applications due to recent advances in sensor technology, integrated circuits, and wireless communication. These systems need to ensure that data is protected during collection, transmission, processing and storage. Currently, no complete solution exists for ensuring data is protected while also meeting regulatory security requirements for wireless body area network applications. To develop effective solutions, it is necessary to explore the attacks and security requirements of wireless body area network applications. There is no comprehensive list of attacks and security requirements. This paper will present a systematic literature review of potential attacks and security requirements for ensuring data security in wireless body area networks.

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“…• Integrity: When data is received, the receiver party has to ensure that the received information is original and have not been altered during the transmission phase [99]. Confidentiality measures cannot protect data from modification, which can be easily done by intercepting data in the transmission phase to inject, delete, or modify the sent message.…”

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“…These attacks make the security and privacy of PHR data one of the primary challenges for WBAN systems. We have previously conducted a structured literature review and identified a total of 11 types of attacks on WBAN applications, in addition to identifying 22 security and privacy requirements for WBAN applications [8].…”

“…Each control was mapped to the WBAN security and privacy requirements that the authors had previously identified through a literature review, which is presented in [8]. Controls were then selected by excluding controls that related to: (1) Business operation, (2) Organizational facilities, (3) Management operation, (4) Offices, rooms and facilities, (5) Human resource security, (6) Personal security and (7) Network cabling.…”