TY - JOUR
T1 - PSKA
T2 - Usable and secure key agreement scheme for body area networks
AU - Venkatasubramanian, Krishna K.
AU - Banerjee, Ayan
AU - Gupta, Sandeep
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received October 16, 2008; revised March 20, 2009 and August 13, 2009. First published December 11, 2009; current version published January 15, 2010. This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation under Grant CNS-0617671 and Grant CT-0831544. This paper was presented in part at the IEEE Military Communications Conference 2008, San Diego.
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - A body area network (BAN) is a wireless network of health monitoring sensors designed to deliver personalized healthcare. Securing intersensor communications within BANs is essential for preserving not only the privacy of health data, but also for ensuring safety of healthcare delivery. This paper presents physiological-signal-based key agreement (PSKA), a scheme for enabling secure intersensor communication within a BAN in a usable (plug-n-play, transparent) manner. PSKA allows neighboring nodes in a BAN to agree to a symmetric (shared) cryptographic key, in an authenticated manner, using physiological signals obtained from the subject. No initialization or predeployment is required; simply deploying sensors in a BAN is enough to make them communicate securely. Our analysis, prototyping, and comparison with the frequently used DiffieHellman key agreement protocol shows that PSKA is a viable intersensor key agreement protocol for BANs.
AB - A body area network (BAN) is a wireless network of health monitoring sensors designed to deliver personalized healthcare. Securing intersensor communications within BANs is essential for preserving not only the privacy of health data, but also for ensuring safety of healthcare delivery. This paper presents physiological-signal-based key agreement (PSKA), a scheme for enabling secure intersensor communication within a BAN in a usable (plug-n-play, transparent) manner. PSKA allows neighboring nodes in a BAN to agree to a symmetric (shared) cryptographic key, in an authenticated manner, using physiological signals obtained from the subject. No initialization or predeployment is required; simply deploying sensors in a BAN is enough to make them communicate securely. Our analysis, prototyping, and comparison with the frequently used DiffieHellman key agreement protocol shows that PSKA is a viable intersensor key agreement protocol for BANs.
KW - Body area networks (BANs)
KW - Physiological-signals-based key agreement (PSKA)
KW - Secure communication
KW - Usable security
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U2 - 10.1109/TITB.2009.2037617
DO - 10.1109/TITB.2009.2037617
M3 - Article
C2 - 20007032
AN - SCOPUS:76849098534
SN - 1089-7771
VL - 14
SP - 60
EP - 68
JO - IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
JF - IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
IS - 1
M1 - 5352222
ER -