Eliminating reconciliation cost in secret key generation for body-worn health monitoring devices

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2763-2776

  Ali, Syed Taha ^a   Sivaraman, Vijay ^a   Ostry, Diethelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computing Milieux; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Operating Systems; Security and Privacy Protection; Security and Protection; Software Software Engineering

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COSTS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

COMPUTING MILIEUX; MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY AND PRIVACY PROTECTION; SECURITY AND PROTECTION; SOFTWARE/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84908542982     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: 15580660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2013.71     Document Type: Article

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