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Security considerations for wireless carrier agonistic bio-monitoring systems

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Advances in information and communications technology has led to a significant advances in noncontact portable devices capable of monitoring vital signals of patients. These wearable and implantable bio-monitoring systems allow collections of wearable sensors to be constructed as a Body Area Network (BAN) to record biological data for a subject. Such systems can be used to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for patients. One of the main uses for a bio-monitoring system is to record biological data values from a subject and provide them to a doctor or other medical professional. However, wearable bio-monitoring systems raise unique security considerations. In this paper, we discuss some of the security considerations that have arisen in our work around communications agnostic bio-monitoring, and how we have addressed these concerns. Furthermore, the issues related to the identifying and trusting sender and receiver entities are discussed.

History

Volume

164

Chapter number

48

Pagination

725-737

ISSN

1867-8211

ISBN-13

9783319288642

Language

eng

Publication classification

B Book chapter, B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2015, Springer

Extent

48

Editor/Contributor(s)

Thuraisingham B, Wang X, Yegneswaran V

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Berlin, Germany

Title of book

Security and privacy in communication networks : 11th international conference, SecureComm 2015 Dallas, TX, USA, October 26-29, 2015 Revised Selected Papers

Series

Lecture notes of the institute of computer sciences, social informatics and telecommunications engineering; v.164