Recommendation-Based Trust Management in Body Area Networks for Mobile Healthcare

Wireless body area networks (BAN) has recently emerged as an important enabling technology to support various telehealth applications. Because of its unique application domain, it is critical to ensure the trustworthy and reliable gathering of patient´s physiological data. In this paper, a trust management scheme (BAN-Trust) is proposed that does not rely on any encryption technique, and it can be efficiently deployed on commercial off-the-shelf sensor devices. The effectiveness of the BAN-Trust scheme is validated through experiments.