A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks
Current advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to implant a network of biosensors inside the human body for health monitoring. In the context of a body area network (BAN), the confidentiality and integrity of the sensitive health information is particularly important. In this pap...
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| description | Current advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to implant a network of biosensors inside the human body for health monitoring. In the context of a body area network (BAN), the confidentiality and integrity of the sensitive health information is particularly important. In this paper, we present an ECG (electrocardiogram)-signal-based key establishment protocol to secure the communication between every sensor and the control unit before the physiological data are transferred to external networks for remote analysis or diagnosis. The uniqueness of ECG signal guarantees that our protocol can provide long, random, distinctive and temporal variant keys. Biometric Encryption technique is applied to achieve the mutual authentication and derive a non-linkable session key between every sensor and the control unit. The correctness of the proposed key establishment protocol is formally verified based on SVO logic. Security analysis shows that our protocol can guarantee data confidentiality, authenticity and integrity. Performance analysis shows that it is a lightweight protocol. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-484a3e730bfd40cdba520ca7f2bbc7212025-02-03T05:55:23ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772011-08-01710.1155/2011/282986282986A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area NetworksLin Yao0Bing Liu1Guowei Wu2Kai Yao3Jia Wang4 School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China Library Information Center, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110178, China School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, ChinaCurrent advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to implant a network of biosensors inside the human body for health monitoring. In the context of a body area network (BAN), the confidentiality and integrity of the sensitive health information is particularly important. In this paper, we present an ECG (electrocardiogram)-signal-based key establishment protocol to secure the communication between every sensor and the control unit before the physiological data are transferred to external networks for remote analysis or diagnosis. The uniqueness of ECG signal guarantees that our protocol can provide long, random, distinctive and temporal variant keys. Biometric Encryption technique is applied to achieve the mutual authentication and derive a non-linkable session key between every sensor and the control unit. The correctness of the proposed key establishment protocol is formally verified based on SVO logic. Security analysis shows that our protocol can guarantee data confidentiality, authenticity and integrity. Performance analysis shows that it is a lightweight protocol.https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/282986 |
| spellingShingle | Lin Yao Bing Liu Guowei Wu Kai Yao Jia Wang A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks |
| title_full | A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks |
| title_fullStr | A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks |
| title_short | A Biometric Key Establishment Protocol for Body Area Networks |
| title_sort | biometric key establishment protocol for body area networks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/282986 |
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