A MAC Layer Protocol Supporting the Application of WSNs in Medicine and Healthcare Domains

Author

Zhongwei Zhang ; Hong Zhou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput., Univ. of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 July 2011

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

37

Abstract

Application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in many fields has achieved a significant advances, many research can be seen in military, industrial control surveillance, and bush fire and wild habitant monitoring, However, it is a bit too early to claim the application of WSN in the domain of Medicine and Healthcare (M&HC) a big success. The major obstacle is the concern raised by the users that how secure the collected data is stored or transmitted over the underlying WSN and how to protect privacy while taking advantage of the technology. In this paper, a sensible solution is proposed to improve the security by augmenting the IEEE 802.15.4 standard with intrusion detection and counterattack mechanism.

Keywords

Zigbee; access protocols; data privacy; security of data; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; MAC layer protocol; counterattack mechanism; data privacy; data security; healthcare domain; intrusion detection; medicine domain; wireless sensor networks; Intrusion detection; Media Access Protocol; Medical services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4; Intrusion detection; Wireless Sensor Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2011 12th ACIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0896-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SNPD.2011.32

Filename

6063541