Preventing wireless network configuration errors in patient monitoring using device fingerprints

Author

Novak, Joe H. ; Kasera, Sneha Kumar ; Patwari, Neal

Author_Institution

Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Configuration errors are the most significant cause of failure in networks. Little research has been devoted to preventing network configuration errors using device fingerprints. We demonstrate how they can be used to prevent information from being incorrectly routed in an IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled wireless sensor network with multiple coordinators. To determine if they are appropriate for this application, we investigate the number of unique fingerprints that clock skew and radio frequency characteristics provide.

Keywords

Zigbee; biomedical communication; clocks; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 beaconenabled wireless sensor network; clock skew; device fingerprints; patient monitoring; radio frequency characteristics; wireless network configuration errors; Clocks; Correlation; Entropy; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Temperature measurement; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Device fingerprints; clock skew; frequency error; patient monitoring; wireless sensor node network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium and Workshops on a

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5827-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WoWMoM.2013.6583471

Filename

6583471