Title
MARC: A Novel Framework for Detecting MITM Attacks in eHealthcare BLE Systems.
Abstract
Real-time and ubiquitous patient monitoring demands the use of wireless data acquisition through resource constrained medical sensors, mostly configured with No-input No-output (NiNo) capabilities. Bluetooth is one of the most popular and widely adopted means of communicating this sensed information to a mobile terminal. However, over simplified implementations of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) protocol in eHealth sector is susceptible to several wireless attacks, in particular the Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack. The issue arises due to a lack of mutual authentication and integrity protection between the communicating devices, which may lead to compromise of confidentiality, availability and even the integrity of this safety-critical information. This research paper presents a novel framework named MARC to detect, analyze, and mitigate Bluetooth security flaws while focusing upon MITM attack against NiNo devices. For this purpose, a comprehensive solution has been proposed, which can detect MITM signatures based upon four novel anomaly detection metrics: analyzing Malicious scan requests, Advertisement intervals, RSSI levels, and Cloned node addresses. The proposed solution has been evaluated through practical implementation and demonstration of different attack scenarios, which show promising results concerning accurate and efficient detection of MITM attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10916-019-1440-0
Journal of Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
No-input No-output (NiNo) device, eHealthcare, BLE, MITM attack, Sensors security, MARC
Anomaly detection,Mutual authentication,Man-in-the-middle attack,Wireless,Confidentiality,Computer security,Remote patient monitoring,Implementation,Medicine,Bluetooth
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
11
0148-5598
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Yaseen110.69
Waseem Iqbal2357.45
Imran Rashid3140.91
Haider Abbas439143.88
Mujahid Mohsin500.34
Kashif Saleem621421.58
Yawar Abbas Bangash700.34