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Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems

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Advances in information and communications technology has led to a significant advances in noncontact portable devices capable of monitoring vital signals of patients. These wearable and implantable bio-monitoring systems allow collections of wearable sensors to be constructed as a Body Area Network (BAN) to record biological data for a subject. Such systems can be used to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for patients. One of the main uses for a bio-monitoring system is to record biological data values from a subject and provide them to a doctor or other medical professional. However, wearable bio-monitoring systems raise unique security considerations. In this paper, we discuss some of the security considerations that have arisen in our work around communications agnostic bio-monitoring, and how we have addressed these concerns. Furthermore, the issues related to the identifying and trusting sender and receiver entities are discussed.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Locked Bag 20000, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia

    Ben Townsend & Jemal Abawajy

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  2. Indiana University at Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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  3. SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA

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Townsend, B., Abawajy, J. (2015). Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems. In: Thuraisingham, B., Wang, X., Yegneswaran, V. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28865-9_48

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