Cargando…
Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks
Recent technological advances in wireless communications and physiological sensing allow miniature, lightweight, ultra-low power, intelligent monitoring devices, which can be integrated into a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) for health monitoring. Physiological signals of humans such as heartbea...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
2012
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s120912606 |
_version_ | 1782247363260186624 |
---|---|
author | Sahoo, Prasan Kumar |
author_facet | Sahoo, Prasan Kumar |
author_sort | Sahoo, Prasan Kumar |
collection | PubMed |
description | Recent technological advances in wireless communications and physiological sensing allow miniature, lightweight, ultra-low power, intelligent monitoring devices, which can be integrated into a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) for health monitoring. Physiological signals of humans such as heartbeats, temperature and pulse can be monitored from a distant location using tiny biomedical wireless sensors. Hence, it is highly essential to combine the ubiquitous computing with mobile health technology using wireless sensors and smart phones to monitor the well-being of chronic patients such as cardiac, Parkinson and epilepsy patients. Since physiological data of a patient are highly sensitive, maintaining its confidentiality is highly essential. Hence, security is a vital research issue in mobile health (mHealth) applications, especially if a patient has an embarrassing disease. In this paper a three tier security architecture for the mHealth application is proposed, in which light weight data confidentiality and authentication protocols are proposed to maintain the privacy of a patient. Moreover, considering the energy and hardware constraints of the wireless body sensors, low complexity data confidential and authentication schemes are designed. Performance evaluation of the proposed architecture shows that they can satisfy the energy and hardware limitations of the sensors and still can maintain the secure fabrics of the wireless body sensor networks. Besides, the proposed schemes can outperform in terms of energy consumption, memory usage and computation time over standard key establishment security scheme. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3478861 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2012 |
publisher | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-34788612012-10-30 Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks Sahoo, Prasan Kumar Sensors (Basel) Article Recent technological advances in wireless communications and physiological sensing allow miniature, lightweight, ultra-low power, intelligent monitoring devices, which can be integrated into a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) for health monitoring. Physiological signals of humans such as heartbeats, temperature and pulse can be monitored from a distant location using tiny biomedical wireless sensors. Hence, it is highly essential to combine the ubiquitous computing with mobile health technology using wireless sensors and smart phones to monitor the well-being of chronic patients such as cardiac, Parkinson and epilepsy patients. Since physiological data of a patient are highly sensitive, maintaining its confidentiality is highly essential. Hence, security is a vital research issue in mobile health (mHealth) applications, especially if a patient has an embarrassing disease. In this paper a three tier security architecture for the mHealth application is proposed, in which light weight data confidentiality and authentication protocols are proposed to maintain the privacy of a patient. Moreover, considering the energy and hardware constraints of the wireless body sensors, low complexity data confidential and authentication schemes are designed. Performance evaluation of the proposed architecture shows that they can satisfy the energy and hardware limitations of the sensors and still can maintain the secure fabrics of the wireless body sensor networks. Besides, the proposed schemes can outperform in terms of energy consumption, memory usage and computation time over standard key establishment security scheme. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2012-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3478861/ /pubmed/23112734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s120912606 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sahoo, Prasan Kumar Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title | Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title_full | Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title_fullStr | Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title_short | Efficient Security Mechanisms for mHealth Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks |
title_sort | efficient security mechanisms for mhealth applications using wireless body sensor networks |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112734 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s120912606 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT sahooprasankumar efficientsecuritymechanismsformhealthapplicationsusingwirelessbodysensornetworks |