Security of Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications: Comparison between ETSI and IEEE Approaches

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is vulnerable to various security threats including both active and passive attacks. It is important to implement effective security measures to mitigate these threats and ensure the security requirements of medical information transmitted over WBANs. In this paper, a comparison of the security features of different standards suitable for WBANs are presented. The various security protocols, made by different global standard organizations, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), for WBAN, are analyzed. Moreover, it also presented their current work in the context of WBAN security and what their future directions are.