They can hear your heartbeats: Non-invasive security for implantable medical devices

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2-13

  Gollakota, Shyamnath ^a   Hassanieh, Haitham ^a   Ransford, Benjamin ^b   Katabi, Dina ^a   Fu, Kevin ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Full duplex; Implanted medical devices; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SHOCK; FULL-DUPLEX; IMPLANTABLE DEVICES; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES; NON-INVASIVE; PRIVATE DATA; RADIO DESIGN; SOFTWARE RADIO; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DESIGN; ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); RADIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 80053135174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018436.2018438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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