TY - GEN
T1 - Securing communications between external users and Wireless Body Area Networks
AU - Hu, Chunqiang
AU - Zhang, Fan
AU - Cheng, Xiuzhen
AU - Liao, Xiaofeng
AU - Chen, Dechang
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) are expected to play a crucial role in patient-health monitoring in the near future. Establishing secure communications between BAN sensors and external users is key to addressing the prevalent security and privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose the primitive functions to implement a secret-sharing based Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) scheme, which encrypts the data based on an access structure specified by the data source. We also design two protocols to securely retrieve the sensitive patient data from a BAN and instruct the sensors in a BAN. Our analysis indicates that the proposed scheme is feasible, can provide message authenticity, and can counter possible major attacks such as collusion attacks and battery-draining attacks.
AB - Wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) are expected to play a crucial role in patient-health monitoring in the near future. Establishing secure communications between BAN sensors and external users is key to addressing the prevalent security and privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose the primitive functions to implement a secret-sharing based Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) scheme, which encrypts the data based on an access structure specified by the data source. We also design two protocols to securely retrieve the sensitive patient data from a BAN and instruct the sensors in a BAN. Our analysis indicates that the proposed scheme is feasible, can provide message authenticity, and can counter possible major attacks such as collusion attacks and battery-draining attacks.
KW - Access control tree
KW - Attribute-based cryptosystem
KW - Bilinear map
KW - Secure communications
KW - Wireless body area networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879512416&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2463183.2463191
DO - 10.1145/2463183.2463191
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879512416
SN - 9781450320030
T3 - HotWiSec 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics on Wireless Network Security and Privacy
SP - 31
EP - 35
BT - HotWiSec 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics on Wireless Network Security and Privacy
T2 - 2013 2nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics on Wireless Network Security and Privacy, HotWiSec 2013
Y2 - 19 April 2013 through 19 April 2013
ER -