TY - GEN
T1 - Plethysmogram-based secure inter-sensor communication in body area networks
AU - Venkatasubramanian, Krishna K.
AU - Banerjee, Ayan
AU - Gupta, Sandeep
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Body Area Networks (BAN) can play a major role in monitoring the health of soldiers in a battlefield. Securing BANs is essential to ensure safety of the soldiers. This paper presents a novel key agreement protocol called Photoplethysmogram PPG-based based Key Agreement (PKA) which allows sensors in a BAN to agree to a common key using PPG values obtained from the subject (soldier) they are deployed on. Using the stimuli which the sensors are designed to monitor directly for cryptographic purposes, enables administrators to provide security for BANs with minimal initial setup. The principal contributions of this paper are: 1) demonstration of the viability of the PPG signals for agreeing upon common symmetric cryptographic keys between two nodes in BAN, and 2) analysis of the security, performance and quality of the keys produced by PKA.
AB - Body Area Networks (BAN) can play a major role in monitoring the health of soldiers in a battlefield. Securing BANs is essential to ensure safety of the soldiers. This paper presents a novel key agreement protocol called Photoplethysmogram PPG-based based Key Agreement (PKA) which allows sensors in a BAN to agree to a common key using PPG values obtained from the subject (soldier) they are deployed on. Using the stimuli which the sensors are designed to monitor directly for cryptographic purposes, enables administrators to provide security for BANs with minimal initial setup. The principal contributions of this paper are: 1) demonstration of the viability of the PPG signals for agreeing upon common symmetric cryptographic keys between two nodes in BAN, and 2) analysis of the security, performance and quality of the keys produced by PKA.
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U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753199
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753199
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650759211
SN - 9781424426775
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
BT - 2008 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2008 - Assuring Mission Success
T2 - 2008 IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2008 - Assuring Mission Success
Y2 - 17 November 2008 through 19 November 2008
ER -