TY - JOUR
T1 - Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks
AU - Li, Ming
AU - Lou, Wenjing
AU - Ren, Kui
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants CNS-0831628, CNS-0716306, CNS-0746977, and CNS-0831963.
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WENJING LOU ([email protected]) earned a B.E. and an M.E. in computer science and engineering at Xi’an Jiao-tong University, China, an M.A.Sc. in computer communications at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor in 2003, where she is now an associate professor. Her current research interests are in the areas of ad hoc, sensor, and mesh networks, with emphases on network security and routing issues. She was a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2008.
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KUI REN [M] ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2007. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Zhejiang University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. His research interests include network security and privacy and applied cryptography, with the current focus on security and privacy in cloud computing, lower-layer attack and defense mechanisms for wireless networks, e-healthcare, and sensor network security. His research is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is a member of ACM.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - The wireless body area network has emerged as a new technology for e-healthcare that allows the data of a patient's vital body parameters and movements to be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and communicated using short-range wireless communication techniques. WBAN has shown great potential in improving healthcare quality, and thus has found a wide range of applications from ubiquitous health monitoring and computer assisted rehabilitation to emergency medical response systems. The security and privacy protection of the data collected from a WBAN, either while stored inside the WBAN or during their transmission outside of the WBAN, is a major unsolved concern, with challenges coming from stringent resource constraints of WBAN devices, and the high demand for both security/privacy and practicality/ usability. In this article we look into two important data security issues: secure and dependable distributed data storage, and fine-grained distributed data access control for sensitive and private patient medical data. We discuss various practical issues that need to be taken into account while fulfilling the security and privacy requirements. Relevant solutions in sensor networks and WBANs are surveyed, and their applicability is analyzed.
AB - The wireless body area network has emerged as a new technology for e-healthcare that allows the data of a patient's vital body parameters and movements to be collected by small wearable or implantable sensors and communicated using short-range wireless communication techniques. WBAN has shown great potential in improving healthcare quality, and thus has found a wide range of applications from ubiquitous health monitoring and computer assisted rehabilitation to emergency medical response systems. The security and privacy protection of the data collected from a WBAN, either while stored inside the WBAN or during their transmission outside of the WBAN, is a major unsolved concern, with challenges coming from stringent resource constraints of WBAN devices, and the high demand for both security/privacy and practicality/ usability. In this article we look into two important data security issues: secure and dependable distributed data storage, and fine-grained distributed data access control for sensitive and private patient medical data. We discuss various practical issues that need to be taken into account while fulfilling the security and privacy requirements. Relevant solutions in sensor networks and WBANs are surveyed, and their applicability is analyzed.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2010.5416350
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2010.5416350
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77649094379
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 17
SP - 51
EP - 58
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 5416350
ER -