BARI+: A Biometric Based Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks

Sensors

Khaliq-ur-Rahman Raazi Syed Muhammad²  Heejo Lee¹  Sungyoung Lee² 

[1] Division of Computer & Communication Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Korea; E-Mail:;Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University (Global Campus), Yongin, Korea; E-Mails:

关键词: humanware;    healthcare;    security;    key management;    body area networks;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s100403911

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Wireless body area networks (WBAN) consist of resource constrained sensing devices just like other wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, they differ from WSN in topology, scale and security requirements. Due to these differences, key management schemes designed for WSN are inefficient and unnecessarily complex when applied to WBAN. Considering the key management issue, WBAN are also different from WPAN because WBAN can use random biometric measurements as keys. We highlight the differences between WSN and WBAN and propose an efficient key management scheme, which makes use of biometrics and is specifically designed for WBAN domain.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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