DocumentCode
3403257
Title
Enforcing Patient Privacy in Healthcare WSNs Using ECC Implemented on 802.15.4 Beacon Enabled Clusters
Author
Misic, Jelena
Author_Institution
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
fYear
2008
fDate
17-21 March 2008
Firstpage
686
Lastpage
691
Abstract
We consider healthcare wireless sensor networks implemented using 802.15.4 beacon enabled technology, in which security processors are implemented with low power microcontrollers. In this setting, we propose to use elliptic curve cryptography for key distribution, in order to decrease energy consumption compared to the better known RSA algorithm.
Keywords
biomedical communication; data privacy; health care; personal area networks; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; 802.15.4 beacon enabled clusters; elliptic curve cryptography; energy consumption; healthcare WSN; healthcare wireless sensor networks; low power microcontrollers; patient privacy; security processors; Access control; Data security; Databases; Elliptic curve cryptography; Energy consumption; Information security; Medical services; Privacy; Protection; Wireless sensor networks; healthcare wireless sensor networks; security;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2008. PerCom 2008. Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3113-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PERCOM.2008.28
Filename
4517477
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