Title :
Context-Aware Data Association and Authenticity in Pervasive Healthcare
Author :
Chowdhury, M.A. ; Light, J.
Author_Institution :
UNB, St. John, NB, Canada
Abstract :
This paper briefly explains the data association and security issues in pervasive health-care and proposes a context aware security approach to overcome these issues. Our algorithm gathers vital physiological, environmental and personal data to generate user context and uses that information to authenticate a specific patient.
Keywords :
health care; medical information systems; message authentication; sensor fusion; ubiquitous computing; context-aware data association; patient authentication; pervasive healthcare; Medical services; Privacy; Security; biometric authentication; body area network; context-awareness; data association; multimodal sensing; pervasive healthcare;
Conference_Titel :
Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business, 2009. CONGRESS '09. World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Saint John, NB
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5344-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3805-1
DOI :
10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.20
