Research Article
Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-28865-9_48, author={Ben Townsend and Jemal Abawajy}, title={Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems}, proceedings={Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 11th International Conference, SecureComm 2015, Dallas, TX, USA, October 26-29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2016}, month={2}, keywords={Bio-monitoring systems Medical monitoring Mobile communications Information security Information privacy Telemetry Medical telemetry}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-28865-9_48} }- Ben Townsend
Jemal Abawajy
Year: 2016
Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems
SECURECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28865-9_48
Abstract
Advances in information and communications technology has led to a significant advances in noncontact portable devices capable of monitoring vital signals of patients. These wearable and implantable bio-monitoring systems allow collections of wearable sensors to be constructed as a Body Area Network (BAN) to record biological data for a subject. Such systems can be used to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for patients. One of the main uses for a bio-monitoring system is to record biological data values from a subject and provide them to a doctor or other medical professional. However, wearable bio-monitoring systems raise unique security considerations. In this paper, we discuss some of the security considerations that have arisen in our work around communications agnostic bio-monitoring, and how we have addressed these concerns. Furthermore, the issues related to the identifying and trusting sender and receiver entities are discussed.
