Title :
Key establishment protocol for a patient monitoring system based on PUF and PKG
Author :
Ovilla-Martinez, Brisbane ; Diaz-Perez, Arturo ; Garza-Saldana, Juan Jose
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. Lab., CINVESTAV, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
Abstract :
A body sensor network (BSN) is wireless network over a person´s body that can monitor their physiological functions. In the health area, the security of the transmitted information is of vital importance to the attention of a patient. One of the major problems for a monitoring application is the key establishment between the diverse entities in these systems. The generation of cryptographic keys using physiological functions can provide security communication in a BSN as an intra-BAN. The addition of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF´s) extends security to the destination information in the medical center placed beyond-BAN. This paper presents a new protocol using both technologies to establish a cryptographic key and provide security at different levels of communication. An implementation of our protocol is presented as a proof-of-concept in order to test the architecture.
Keywords :
body area networks; body sensor networks; cryptographic protocols; patient monitoring; physiology; private key cryptography; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; BSN; PKG; PUF; body sensor network; cryptographic key generation; intraBAN; key establishment protocol; medical center placed beyond-BAN; patient monitoring system; person body; physically unclonable functions; physiological functions; physiological key generator; security communication; transmitted information security; wireless network; Authentication; Biomedical monitoring; Cryptography; Physiology; Protocols; Servers; BSN; Key establishment; PUF; Physiological functions;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World (CEWIT), 2013 10th International Conference and Expo on
Conference_Location :
Melville, NY
DOI :
10.1109/CEWIT.2013.6713752