Efficient distributed security for wireless medical sensor networks

Morchon, Oscar García; Baldus, Heribert

doi:10.1109/issnip.2008.4761995

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“…The first layer of our security model for an isolated MSN is based on our previous work presented in [7]. We summarize this layer here, since the rest of the layers interact with it.…”

Section: Msn Security Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This basic approach allows implementing a combined and very efficient security handshake for key agreement and lightweight digital certificate verification [7] fulfilling the basic operational requirements (Section III). These requirements motivate the choice of these algorithms against other solutions.…”

Section: A Pan Security Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, an entity's identifier and polynomial share can be cryptographically linked to a lightweight digital certificate (LDC), a set of information encoding the real identity and access control (AC) roles held by the MSN entity, by calculating the identifier as the hash function hasht-) [15] of this information [7]. …”

Section: A Pan Security Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…I DPANIMSN is authenticated during the set up of the PAN security domain (Sections VI.C and VII) and generated by applying a hash function to three parameters: the UPI, the MSN identifier ID MSN' and the PAN master symmetric key involved in this security handshake. This minimizes the delays during normal system operation [7]. …”

Section: ) Pan Membership Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We limit the use of public key cryptography (PKC) since the execution of PKC operations requires several seconds [13] on a typical resource-constrained sensor node platform [17] inducing high delays and making the system prone to denial of service attacks [7]. Thus, its use is restricted to those procedures in which the performance is not a limitation or its use inevitable, e.g., the bootstrapping phase of a PAN, and communication with the back-end layer.…”

Section: B System Performance and Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Security for Pervasive Medical Sensor Networks

García-Morchón¹,

Falck²,

Heer³

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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Abstract-Wireless sensor networks are going to allow for ubiquitous health monitoring, improving users' well-being, the healthcare system, and helping to quickly react on emergency situations. Meeting the strict security needs of these ubiquitous medical applications is a big challenge, since safety and privacy of medical data has to be guaranteed all the way from the sensor nodes to the back-end services, the system has to fulfill latency needs, and lots of mobility is expected.In this paper, we introduce a deployment model for wireless sensor networks for pervasive health care based on the concepts of patient area networks and medical sensor networks, and propose a complete and efficient security framework for them. Our security framework is organized into three layers, addressing the operational requirements and security needs at the patient area network, medical sensor network and back-end levels. We specify how these layers are interconnected with each other as well as the needed security mechanisms that allow for the efficient and practical deployment of secure pervasive health care systems based on wireless sensor networks.

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“…The first layer of our security model for an isolated MSN is based on our previous work presented in [7]. We summarize this layer here, since the rest of the layers interact with it.…”

Section: Msn Security Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Pan Security Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Pan Security Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ) Pan Membership Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B System Performance and Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Security for Pervasive Medical Sensor Networks

García-Morchón¹,

Falck²,

Heer³

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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Sensor network security for pervasive e‐health

García-Morchón¹,

Falck²,

Wehrle³

2010

Security Comm Networks

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Ubiquitous 24/7 health monitoring systems based on wireless medical sensors are going to play a key role for pervasive e-health applications. These systems allow care givers to early detect and act on signs of patients' clinical deterioration improving quality of care in a reliable unobtrusive and cost effective way. Ensuring the privacy and security of the exchanged information is challenging in pervasive e-health environments due to the resource constraints of tiny wireless medical sensors and operational requirements such as user mobility, strict latency needs, or the multitude of parties involved in the system. This paper describes a comprehensive and practical security framework for these pervasive health monitoring systems. We distinguish three layers addressing the specific security needs at the patient area network, medical sensor network, and backend levels. Thereby our architecture accommodates the healthcare institution-centric approach predominant today while making provisions for the more patient-centric vision of pervasive e-health environments. The tailored security mechanisms for each individual layer as well as their interworking are presented and evaluated in detail. The analysis shows that our proposed security framework allows the deployment of wireless medical sensor networks in a very efficient way. CopyrightThe pervasive use of MSNs and PANs presents very specific technical and operational features that challenge and have an impact on the design of the security architecture. Technical and operational featuresFirst, the WMSs can be resource constrained devices with just a few KB of memory, slow and short-word CPUs, and low-rate radios. Thus, security mechanism must be energy efficient, to minimize the memory needs especially RAM, and consuming negligible amount of computational and communication resources. Second, a key requirement for Figure 2. Overview of our system framework.

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Mobile Health Care System for Patient Monitoring

Santra

2010

Information and Communication Technologies

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Efficient distributed security for wireless medical sensor networks

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Security for Pervasive Medical Sensor Networks

Security for Pervasive Medical Sensor Networks

Sensor network security for pervasive e‐health

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