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Body area networks (BANs) play an important role in mobile health monitoring such as, monitoring the health of patients in a hospital or physical status of soldiers in a battlefield. By securing the BAN, we actually secure the lives of soldiers or patients. This work presents an electrocardiogram (EKG) based key agreement scheme using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for the sake of generating a common key in a body area network. The use of EKG brings plug-and-play capability in BANs; i.e., the sensors are just placed on the human body and a secure communication is started among these sensors. The process is made secure by using the iris or fingerprints to lock and then unlock the blocks during exchange between the communicating sensors. The locking and unlocking is done through watermarking. When a watermark is added at the sender side, the block is locked and when it is removed at the receiver side, the block is unlocked. By using iris or fingerprints, the security of the technique improves and its plug-and-play capability is not affected. The analysis is done by using real 2-lead EKG data sampled at a rate of 125 Hz taken from MIT PhysioBank database.
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Ali, A., Khan, F.A. (2010). An Improved EKG-Based Key Agreement Scheme for Body Area Networks. In: Bandyopadhyay, S.K., Adi, W., Kim, Th., Xiao, Y. (eds) Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13365-7_29
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