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Body sensor network security: an identity-based cryptography approach

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WiSec '08: Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security

Pages 148 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352533.1352557

Published: 31 March 2008 Publication History

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A body sensor network (BSN), is a network of sensors deployed on a person's body, usually for health care monitoring. Since the sensors collect personal medical data, security and privacy are important components in a body sensor network. At the same time, the collected data has to readily available in the event of an emergency. In this paper, we present IBE-Lite, a lightweight identity-based encryption suitable for sensors, and developed protocols based on IBE-Lite for a BSN.

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WiSec '08: Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security

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ISBN:9781595938145

DOI:10.1145/1352533

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University of Maryland, USA
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