Key Agreement Schemes in Wireless Body Area Networks: Taxonomy and State-of-the-Art

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Ali, Aftab ^a,b   Khan, Farrukh Aslam ^a,b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

e Health; Key agreement; Security and privacy; Wireless body area network (WBAN)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; FUZZY SYSTEM; TAXONOMY; TELEHEALTH; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPUTER SECURITY; DEVICES; HUMAN; TELEMETRY;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84939430498     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0272-9     Document Type: Article

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