On the Security Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks

Saleem,

doi:10.4156/jdcta.vol3.issue3.22

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“…Spoofing Attack: where the attacker targets the routing information to perform several disruptions such as spoofing, 230 | P a g e www.ijacsa.thesai.org altering, or replay the routing information, leading to complicate the network by creating routing loops [9].…”

Section: ) Attacks At Data Collection Levelmentioning

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Security and Privacy Issues in Ehealthcare Systems: Towards Trusted Services

Zriqat¹,

Altamimi²

2016

ijacsa

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Abstract-Recent years have witnessed a widespread availability of electronic healthcare data record (EHR) systems. Vast amounts of health data were generated in the process of treatment in medical centers such hospitals, clinics, or other institutions. To improve the quality of healthcare service, EHRs could be potentially shared by a variety of users. This results in significant privacy issues that should be addressed to make the use of EHR practical. In fact, despite the recent research in designing standards and regulations directives concerning security and privacy in EHR systems, it is still, however, not completely settled out the privacy challenges. In this paper, a systematic literature review was conducted concerning the privacy issues in electronic healthcare systems. More than 50 original articles were selected to study the existing security approaches and figure out the used security models. Also, a novel Context-aware Access Control Security Model (CARE) is proposed to capture the scenario of data interoperability and support the security fundamentals of healthcare systems along with the capability of providing fine-grained access control.

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Section: ) Attacks At Data Collection Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, threats were emerged at each level of the system, for instance: At data collection level [5][6][7][8][9][10], At transmission level [11][12][13][14], and At storage level [15][16][17][18][19]. These threats were described in Section III.…”

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Security and Privacy Issues in Ehealthcare Systems: Towards Trusted Services

Zriqat¹,

Altamimi²

2016

ijacsa

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“…In case of medical applications, the security threats may lead a patient to a dangerous condition, and sometimes to the death of the patient [4]. WBAN communication can…”

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A Hybrid Security Mechanism for Intra-WBAN and Inter-WBAN Communications

Irum

Ali

Khan

et al. 2013

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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The emerging wireless body area networks (WBANs) have a great potential for the growth and development of future ubiquitous healthcare systems. However, due to the use of unreliable wireless media, WBANs are exposed to a variety of attacks. The prevention of these attacks depends upon the cryptographic techniques. The strength of cryptography is based on the keys used for encryption and decryption in the communication process. Security is still an alarming challenge for WBANs and needs attention of the research community. The proposed work introduces a hybrid key management scheme for both intra-WBAN and inter-WBAN communications. The proposed technique is based on preloaded keys as well as keys automatically generated from biometrics of the human body. The biometric-based calculations are of linear time complexity to cater the strict resource constraints and security requirements of WBANs. The proposed security mechanism provides an efficient solution for the security of both intra-WBAN and inter-WBAN communications. The results of the proposed technique are compared with an existing key management technique known as BARI+. The results show significant improvement over the results produced by BARI+ in terms of storage, communication, energy overhead, and security.

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“…Some work has also been proposed for healthcare applications using WSNs [14][15][16][17]. In 2012, Kumar et al [18] observed that most of the schemes proposed for WSNs such as [9,10,12,13] fall short to provide security and also require heavy computational load and high communication cost.…”

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An Improved User Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Services via Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

Khan

Kumari

2014

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Healthcare service sector is one of the major applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) acknowledged as Wireless Medical Sensor Network (WMSNs). It deploys tiny medical sensor-nodes (MS-nodes) on the body of the patient to sense crucial physiological signs which can be accessed and analyzed by registered medical professionals. Recently, Khan et al. analyzed Kumar et al. 's scheme proposed for healthcare applications using WMSNs and observed that the scheme is susceptible to many security weaknesses if an adversary extracts the information from the lost smart card of some user. The adversary can access patient's physiological data without knowing actual password, can deceive medical professionals by sending fake information about patients, can guess the password of a user from the corresponding smart card, and so forth. Besides, the scheme fails to resist insider attack, lacks user anonymity and the session key shared between the user and the MS-node is insecure. To overcome these problems, we propose an improved user authentication scheme for healthcare applications using WMSNs. We show that the scheme is free from the identified weaknesses and excels in performance and efficiency scheme.

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On the Security Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks

Cited by 65 publications

References 3 publications

Security and Privacy Issues in Ehealthcare Systems: Towards Trusted Services

Security and Privacy Issues in Ehealthcare Systems: Towards Trusted Services

A Hybrid Security Mechanism for Intra-WBAN and Inter-WBAN Communications

An Improved User Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Services via Wireless Medical Sensor Networks

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