Secure authentication for remote patient monitoring withwireless medical sensor networks

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hayajneh, Thaier ^a   Mohd, Bassam J ^b   Imran, Muhammad ^c   Almashaqbeh, Ghada ^d   Vasilakos, Athanasios V ^e  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Authentication; FPGA implementation; MSN; Rabin algorithm; Remote patient monitoring; Security issues

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTHENTICATION; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PRIVACY; NETWORK SECURITY; PATIENT MONITORING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AUTHENTICATION ALGORITHM; AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS; DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITIES; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; MEDICAL SENSOR NETWORKS; REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING; SECURE AUTHENTICATIONS; SECURITY ISSUES;

REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SECURITY; DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PRIVACY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRIVACY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84961627565     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16040424     Document Type: Article

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