Internet of Things (IoT) Based Design of a Secure and Lightweight Body Area Network (BAN) Healthcare System
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Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413, Taiwan
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School of Information Engineering, Changchun Sci-Tech University, Changchun 130600, China
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Computer Center, National Taipei University, Taipei 237, Taiwan
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School of Physical Therapy, Chun Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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Department of Industrial Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 10610, Taiwan
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Sensors 2017, 17(12), 2919; https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122919
Received: 17 October 2017 / Revised: 7 December 2017 / Accepted: 14 December 2017 / Published: 15 December 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IEEE ICICE 2017)
As sensor networks and cloud computation technologies have rapidly developed over recent years, many services and applications integrating these technologies into daily life have come together as an Internet of Things (IoT). At the same time, aging populations have increased the need for expanded and more efficient elderly care services. Fortunately, elderly people can now wear sensing devices which relay data to a personal wireless device, forming a body area network (BAN). These personal wireless devices collect and integrate patients’ personal physiological data, and then transmit the data to the backend of the network for related diagnostics. However, a great deal of the information transmitted by such systems is sensitive data, and must therefore be subject to stringent security protocols. Protecting this data from unauthorized access is thus an important issue in IoT-related research. In regard to a cloud healthcare environment, scholars have proposed a secure mechanism to protect sensitive patient information. Their schemes provide a general architecture; however, these previous schemes still have some vulnerability, and thus cannot guarantee complete security. This paper proposes a secure and lightweight body-sensor network based on the Internet of Things for cloud healthcare environments, in order to address the vulnerabilities discovered in previous schemes. The proposed authentication mechanism is applied to a medical reader to provide a more comprehensive architecture while also providing mutual authentication, and guaranteeing data integrity, user untraceability, and forward and backward secrecy, in addition to being resistant to replay attack.
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Keywords:
sensor network; cloud computation; healthcare; body area network; mutual authentication; privacy; untraceability
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Deng, Y.-Y.; Chen, C.-L.; Tsaur, W.-J.; Tang, Y.-W.; Chen, J.-H. Internet of Things (IoT) Based Design of a Secure and Lightweight Body Area Network (BAN) Healthcare System. Sensors 2017, 17, 2919. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122919
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Deng Y-Y, Chen C-L, Tsaur W-J, Tang Y-W, Chen J-H. Internet of Things (IoT) Based Design of a Secure and Lightweight Body Area Network (BAN) Healthcare System. Sensors. 2017; 17(12):2919. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122919
Chicago/Turabian StyleDeng, Yong-Yuan; Chen, Chin-Ling; Tsaur, Woei-Jiunn; Tang, Yung-Wen; Chen, Jung-Hsuan. 2017. "Internet of Things (IoT) Based Design of a Secure and Lightweight Body Area Network (BAN) Healthcare System" Sensors 17, no. 12: 2919. https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122919
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