Integrity checker for wireless sensor networks in health care applications

Author

Giani, Annarita ; Roosta, Tanya ; Sastry, Shankar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

138

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) for health care systems are used to transmit large amount of data collected from several physiological and environmental sensors. Because the information regarding the health of an individual is highly sensitive, it must be kept private and secure. It is of paramount importance to defend the network against any illegal access, as well as malicious insertion of data that would alter the integrity of the entire system. In this paper, we propose solutions to ensure robustness, integrity, and privacy of sensor networks in health care systems. In addition, we define new metrics for determining the integrity of the sensory data. These metrics are defined based on specific characteristics of the health care systems.

Keywords

biomedical communication; data integrity; health care; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; health care application; integrity checker; sensory data integrity; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Computer networks; Cryptography; Intrusion detection; Medical services; Robustness; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems and applications; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571051

Filename

4571051