Paper Info
Title
Body-Guided Communications: A Low-power, Highly-Confined Primitive to Track and Secure Every Touch.
Abstract
The growing number of devices we interact with require a convenient yet secure solution for user identification, authorization and authentication. Current approaches are cumbersome, susceptible to eavesdropping and relay attacks, or energy inefficient. In this paper, we propose a body-guided communication mechanism to secure every touch when users interact with a variety of devices and objects. The method is implemented in a hardware token worn on user's body, for example in the form of a wristband, which interacts with a receiver embedded inside the touched device through a body-guided channel established when the user touches the device. Experiments show low-power (uJ/bit) operation while achieving superior resilience to attacks, with the received signal at the intended receiver through the body channel being at least 20dB higher than that of an adversary in cm range.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3241539.3241550
MobiCom '18: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking New Delhi India October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Human Computer Interaction (HCI),Body-Guided Communications,Per-Touch Authentication
Authentication,Eavesdropping,Computer science,Authorization,Communication channel,Computer network,Adversary,Security token,Relay
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5903-0
1
0.34
References 
Authors
24
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Viet Nguyen1474.61
Mohamed Ibrahim245335.03
Hoang Truong3213.29
Phuc Nguyen49617.57
Marco Gruteser54631309.81
Richard Howard631125.10
Tam Vu727522.29