A Systematic Key Management Mechanism for Practical Body Sensor Networks
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Yang, Xinyu
Zhao, Cong
Yang, Shusen
Fu, Xinwen
McCann, Julie
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Security plays a vital role in promoting the practicality of Wireless Body Sensor Networks (BSNs), which provides a promising solution to precise human physiological status monitoring. A fundamental security issue in BSN is key management, including establishment and maintenance of the key system. However, current BSN key management solutions are either designed for specific phases of a BSN's life-time or restricted to strong assumptions such as homogeneous BSN composition, pre-deployed key materials, and existing secure path, which limits their applications in real-world BSNs. In this paper, we develop the Systematic Key Management (SKM) for practical BSNs, where basic human interactions are conducted for non-predeployed secure BSN initialization, and authenticated key agreement is achieved using lightweight non-pairing certificateless public key cryptography. We construct a BSN prototype consisting of self-designed motes and Android phones to evaluate the real-world performance of SKM. Through extensive simulations and test-bed experiments, we demonstrate that our lightweight SKM scheme manages to provide high security guarantee while outperforming state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both computation and storage efficiency.
Date Issued
2015-09-10
Date Acceptance
2015-06-08
Citation
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC), 2015, pp.7310-7315
ISSN
1550-3607
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
7310
End Page
7315
Journal / Book Title
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
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Source
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Telecommunications
AREA NETWORKS
SCHEME
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-06-08
Finish Date
2015-06-12
Coverage Spatial
London, ENGLAND
Date Publish Online
2015-09-10