Key Agreement Schemes in Wireless Body Area Networks: Taxonomy and State-of-the-Art

Aftab Ali, Farrukh Aslam Khan

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Abstract

Advances in wearable and implantable biosensors have enabled the applicability and usability of wireless body area networks (WBANs). A WBAN allows biosensors to collect and communicate human physiological data using wireless communication. The communication security of the collected data in WBAN is a major concern. Because of the dependability of cryptographic schemes for key management, these have become an important aspect of this security. However, the extremely constrained nature of biosensors has made designing key management schemes a challenging task. For this reason, many lightweight key management schemes have been proposed to overcome these constraints. In this article, we present a review of the state of the art of these solutions. We classify the WBAN schemes into three classes and evaluate them based on adequate metrics for key management in WBAN.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Medical Systems
Volume39
Issue number10
Early online date18 Aug 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 1 Oct 2015

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