Using the timing information of heartbeats as an entity identifier to secure body sensor network

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 772-779

  Bao, Shu Di ^a,b,c   Poon, Carmen C Y ^b   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^b,d   Shen, Lian Feng ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Body sensor network (BSN); Entity identifier (EI); Interpulse interval (IPI); Security

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; BIOMETRICS; SENSORS; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BIOMETRIC APPROACHES; BIOMETRIC TRAITS; BODY SENSOR NETWORK (BSN); BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ENTITY IDENTIFIER (EI); FALSE ACCEPTANCE RATES; FALSE REJECTION RATES; HUMAN BODIES; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INTERPULSE INTERVAL (IPI); INTERPULSE INTERVALS; MEDICAL INFORMATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; SECURE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; SECURITY; TELEMEDICINE APPLICATIONS; TIMING INFORMATIONS; TRANSFER INFORMATIONS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; TELEMEDICINE;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 56649112965     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926434     Document Type: Article

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