Title :
A MAC Layer Protocol Supporting the Application of WSNs in Medicine and Healthcare Domains
Author :
Zhongwei Zhang ; Hong Zhou
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput., Univ. of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
Application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in many fields has achieved a significant advances, many research can be seen in military, industrial control surveillance, and bush fire and wild habitant monitoring, However, it is a bit too early to claim the application of WSN in the domain of Medicine and Healthcare (M&HC) a big success. The major obstacle is the concern raised by the users that how secure the collected data is stored or transmitted over the underlying WSN and how to protect privacy while taking advantage of the technology. In this paper, a sensible solution is proposed to improve the security by augmenting the IEEE 802.15.4 standard with intrusion detection and counterattack mechanism.
Keywords :
Zigbee; access protocols; data privacy; security of data; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; MAC layer protocol; counterattack mechanism; data privacy; data security; healthcare domain; intrusion detection; medicine domain; wireless sensor networks; Intrusion detection; Media Access Protocol; Medical services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4; Intrusion detection; Wireless Sensor Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2011 12th ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0896-1
DOI :
10.1109/SNPD.2011.32
