Title
An Efficient Biometric-Based Algorithm Using Heart Rate Variability for Securing Body Sensor Networks
Abstract
Body Sensor Network (BSN) is a network of several associated sensor nodes on, inside or around the human body to monitor vital signals, such as, Electroencephalogram (EEG), Photoplethysmography (PPG), Electrocardiogram (ECG), etc. Each sensor node in BSN delivers major information; therefore, it is very significant to provide data confidentiality and security. All existing approaches to secure BSN are based on complex cryptographic key generation procedures, which not only demands high resource utilization and computation time, but also consumes large amount of energy, power and memory during data transmission. However, it is indispensable to put forward energy efficient and computationally less complex authentication technique for BSN. In this paper, a novel biometric-based algorithm is proposed, which utilizes Heart Rate Variability (HRV) for simple key generation process to secure BSN. Our proposed algorithm is compared with three data authentication techniques, namely Physiological Signal based Key Agreement (PSKA), Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA). Simulation is performed in Matlab and results suggest that proposed algorithm is quite efficient in terms of transmission time utilization, average remaining energy and total power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3390/s150715067
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Body Sensor Network (BSN),biometric,efficiency,Electrocardiogram (ECG),Heart Rate Variability (HRV),security
Sensor node,Key generation,Authentication,Data transmission,Algorithm,Real-time computing,Encryption,Engineering,Transmission time,Wireless sensor network,Key (cryptography)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
7.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
1.24
11
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
sandeep pirbhulal116517.59
Heye Zhang239752.64
S. C. Mukhopadhyay327045.51
Chunyue Li4242.20
yumei wang5231.24
Guanglin Li631457.23
Wanqing Wu712613.77
Yuan-Ting Zhang820831.55