A Novel Approach to Attain Enhanced Security in Medical Sensor Networks
International Journal of Modern Trends in Engineering and Science (IJMTES), Vol. 3, Issue 12, 2016
4 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2016
Date Written: December 24, 2016
Abstract
Wireless medical sensor networks (MSNs) are a key enabling technology in e-healthcare that allows the data of a patient’s vital body parameters to be collected by the wearable or implantable biosensors. However, the security and privacy protection of the collected data is a major unsolved issue, with challenges coming from the stringent resource constraints of MSN devices, and the high demand for both security/privacy and practicality. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and secure system for MSNs. The system employs hash-chain based key updating mechanism and proxy protected signature technique to achieve efficient secure transmission and fine-grained data access control. Furthermore, we extend the system to provide backward secrecy and privacy preservation.
Keywords: Access Control, Data Transmission, Medical Sensor Networks, Security
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