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A Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) has emerged as a promising technology for pervasive healthcare systems. It allows the seamless integration of small and intelligent invasive or non-invasive sensor nodes in, on or around a human body for continuous health monitoring. This paper presents a secure RFID-based protocol for WBAN. This protocol introduces a separate wakeup process that is used for secure communication on the main channel. The performance of the proposed protocol is analyzed and compared with that of IEEE 802.15.6-based CSMA/CA and preamble-based TDMA protocols using extensive simulations. It is shown that the proposed protocol is power-efficient and is less vulnerable to different attacks compared to the other protocols. For a low traffic load and a single alkaline battery of capacity 2.6Ah, the proposed protocol could extend the WBAN lifetime to approximately five years.
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Ullah, S., Alsalih, W. (2013). On Secure and Power-Efficient RFID-Based Wireless Body Area Network. In: Lopez, J., Huang, X., Sandhu, R. (eds) Network and System Security. NSS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38631-2_69
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