Body area network security: Robust key establishment using human body channel

HealthSec 2012 - 3rd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chang, Sang Yoon ^a   Hu, Yih Chun ^a   Anderson, Hans ^a   Fu, Ting ^b   Huang, Evelyn Y L ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORK SECURITIES; CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL DATA; HUMAN BODIES; KEY ESTABLISHMENTS; KEY SHARING; VOLTAGE SIGNALS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85092069836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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