Sensors 2010, 10(4), 3911-3933; doi:10.3390/s100403911
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BARI+: A Biometric Based Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks

Syed Muhammad Khaliq-ur-Rahman Raazi 1 email, Heejo Lee 2 email, Sungyoung Lee 1,* email and Young-Koo Lee 1 email
1 Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University (Global Campus), Yongin, Korea 2 Division of Computer & Communication Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Korea
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Received: 6 February 2010; in revised form: 6 March 2010 / Accepted: 7 April 2010 / Published: 16 April 2010
(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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Abstract: Wireless body area networks (WBAN) consist of resource constrained sensing devices just like other wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, they differ from WSN in topology, scale and security requirements. Due to these differences, key management schemes designed for WSN are inefficient and unnecessarily complex when applied to WBAN. Considering the key management issue, WBAN are also different from WPAN because WBAN can use random biometric measurements as keys. We highlight the differences between WSN and WBAN and propose an efficient key management scheme, which makes use of biometrics and is specifically designed for WBAN domain.
Keywords: humanware; healthcare; security; key management; body area networks

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Raazi, S.M.K.-U.-R.; Lee, H.; Lee, S.; Lee, Y.-K. BARI+: A Biometric Based Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks. Sensors 2010, 10, 3911-3933.

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Raazi SMK-U-R, Lee H, Lee S, Lee Y-K. BARI+: A Biometric Based Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks. Sensors. 2010; 10(4):3911-3933.

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Raazi, Syed Muhammad K.-U.-R.; Lee, Heejo; Lee, Sungyoung; Lee, Young-Koo. 2010. "BARI+: A Biometric Based Distributed Key Management Approach for Wireless Body Area Networks." Sensors 10, no. 4: 3911-3933.

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