Security Issues in WBANs

Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2016

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a new trend in the technology that provides remote mechanism to monitor and collect patient's health record data using wearable sensors. It is widely recognized that a high level of system security and privacy play a key role in protecting these data when being used by the healthcare professionals and during storage to ensure that patient's records are kept safe from intruder's danger. It is therefore of great interest to discuss security and privacy issues in WBANs. In this paper, we reviewed WBAN communication architecture, security and privacy requirements and security threats and the primary challenges in WBANs to these systems based on the latest standards and publications. This paper also covers the state-of-art security measures and research in WBAN. Finally, open areas for future research and enhancements are explored.

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJOSCIENCE

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a new trend in the technology that provides remote mechanism to monitor and collect patient’s health record data using wearable sensors. It is widely recognized that a high level of system security and privacy play a key role in protecting these data when being used by the healthcare professionals and during storage to ensure that patient’s records are kept safe from intruder’s danger. It is therefore of great interest to discuss security and privacy issues in WBANs. In this paper, we reviewed WBAN communication architecture, security and privacy requirements and security threats and the primary challenges in WBANs to these systems based on the latest standards and publications. This paper also covers the state-of-art security measures and research in WBAN.

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2024

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are a new technology that helps improve people's lives by keeping track of patients in hospitals and outside, monitoring athletes, assisting the military, and supporting various multimedia tasks. These sensors can be placed on or inside people's bodies, making it easy to monitor their health without disrupting their daily routines. WBANs are useful for detecting long-term health problems, keeping an eye on patients after surgery, and responding quickly to emergencies. However, using WBANs also brings up security issues that need to be addressed, including how the network is set up, how data is transmitted, and ways to make the system more secure and energy-efficient. A Body Area Network (BAN) consists of devices that sense and communicate events in their environment. Despite being around for over 20 years, BAN technology has recently surged in popularity due to smaller, more powerful devices, better communication protocols, and longer-lasting batteries. BANs find extensive use in healthcare, providing continuous data streams that help physicians make informed treatment decisions. Recent literature reviews cover BAN architectures, energy sources, applications, and challenges, emphasizing safety, security, and sustainability requirements. Meanwhile, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), a subset of WSNs, have gained significant traction, particularly postpandemic, for their ability to remotely diagnose, treat, and monitor patients.

SURVEY OF SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS FOR HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS, 2021

Wireless Body Area Network or WBAN is an eyeopener revolution in technological development of E-Health domain that offers the remote mechanism to doctors(or physicians), so they can monitor and collect patient's health related data using wearable sensors. We know that a high degree of system security and privacy plays a major role in protecting this valuable data of patient especially when being used by the health professionals. So, while storage of this data health professionals must have to provide guarantee that the health related data of patient will be kept confidential from intruder or attacker's access. So, it is therefore of great interest to discuss communication architecture and challenges of WBAN. This paper also covers the security and privacy requirements, issues, attacks and then possible solutions for WBANs. At the end, open areas for future research and enhancements are explored.

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2018

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of wireless sensor nodes which can be placed within the body or outside the body of a human or a living person which in result observes or monitors the functionality and adjoining situations of the body. Utilizing a Wireless Body Area Network, the patient encounters a greater physical versatility and is never again constrained to remain in the hospital. As the Wireless Body Area Network sensor devices is being utilized for gathering the sensitive data and possibly will run into antagonistic situations, they require complicated and very secure security medium or structure to avoid the vitriolic communications within the system. These devices represent various security and privacy protection of touchy and private patient medical data. The medical records of patients are a significant and an unsolved situation due to which a changing or exploitation to the system is possible. In this research paper, we first present an overview of WBAN, how they utilized for healthcare monitoring, its architecture then highlight major security and privacy requirements and assaults at different network layer in a WBAN and we finally talk about various cryptographic algorithms and laws for providing solution of security and privacy in WBAN.

AES and Biometric authentication based solution for WBAN 3 Tier Communication.

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, 2022

The continued advancement of information communication technologies (ICT) has led to the adoption of internet of things in the healthcare sector. One of such application domain of ICT is the wireless body area network (WBAN), which enables remote monitoring of vital biomedical parameters on the patient or the elderly. Upon collection of these parameters, they are forwarded to the remote hospital servers where analysis and appropriate actions are taken. Obviously, the data exchanged in these networks is sensitive and private and hence can have devastating effects on the patient if leaked to the unintended parties. Consequently, many security solutions have been developed in literature. The goal of this paper is to carry out an extensive review of these security schemes in an effort to pin point their strengths and weaknesses. Based on the findings, it is evident that many of these security solutions try to attain a number of security and privacy protection. However, it is noted that these schemes still lack many of the required security goals such as anonymity, untraeability, forward key secrecy as well as resistance to many of the conventional attacks. Therefore, some recommendations for the attainment of perfect privacy and security are given towards the end of this paper.

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 2021

Body area network (BAN) connects sensors and actuators to the human body in order to collect patient's information and transmitting it to doctors in a confined space with limited users. wireless body area network (WBAN) is derived from wireless sensor networks (WSN) and enables to transfer of the patient's information with a wide range of communication due to the limitations of the wired body area network. It plays a vital role in healthcare monitoring, healthcare systems, medical field, sports field, and multimedia communication. Sensors and actuators lead to high energy consumption due to their tiny size. WBAN facilitates in securely storing patient information and transmitting it to the doctor without data loss at a specific time. This review examines and summarizes methodological approaches in WBAN relating to security, safety, reliability, and the fastest transmission. Flying body area networks (FBAN) utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for data transmission are recommended to promote rapid and secure communication in WBAN. FBAN improve the security, scalability, and speed in order to transmit patient's information to the doctor due to high mobility.

2020

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a replacement technology that can be used to incorporate these devices & thereby provide health monitoring applications in healthcare. Further development of wireless communications in recent years has led to the use of sensing element networks, which are low priced. These networks have a wide variety of applications. Various technical problems in these application areas are being resolved by researchers across the world. Apart from it, it addresses a wide variety of challenges in these technologies. Keywords— Wireless body area networks, Health care Applications, WSN, patient monitoring, sensor, MAC

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2019

The internet exists as a global interconnection network for information sharing, commerce, and entertainment. The usage of internet has grown tremendously over the past decade in the field of E- health care monitoring system. In E- health care monitoring systems, Smart Wireless Body Area Networks (S-WBANs) is one among such technologies and is being explored. S-WBANs are primarily used as a smart object with computer-assisted rehabilitation. They serve as a remote monitoring service in smart electronic healthcare to continuously measure the vital parameters like heart rate, insulin level, body temperature, etc. They are thereby providing doctors with early detection of a patient’s medical conditions. However, sharing of sensitive personal data over a wireless network requires a high level of security. Since any breach in the system security will lead to a direct violation of the patient’s privacy. In order to address the security vulnerability of the existing system, in this paper a...