BANA: Body area network authentication exploiting channel characteristics

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1803-1816

  Shi, Lu ^a   Li, Ming ^b   Yu, Shucheng ^a   Yuan, Jiawei ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

^b UT 84322 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Physical Layer; RSS; Sensor; Wireless Body Area Network

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION MECHANISMS; AUTHENTICATION SOLUTIONS; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RSS; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 84883408567     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130913     Document Type: Article

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