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Advances in information and communications technology has led to a significant advances in noncontact portable devices capable of monitoring vital signals of patients. These wearable and implantable bio-monitoring systems allow collections of wearable sensors to be constructed as a Body Area Network (BAN) to record biological data for a subject. Such systems can be used to improve the quality of life and treatment outcomes for patients. One of the main uses for a bio-monitoring system is to record biological data values from a subject and provide them to a doctor or other medical professional. However, wearable bio-monitoring systems raise unique security considerations. In this paper, we discuss some of the security considerations that have arisen in our work around communications agnostic bio-monitoring, and how we have addressed these concerns. Furthermore, the issues related to the identifying and trusting sender and receiver entities are discussed.
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Townsend, B., Abawajy, J. (2015). Security Considerations for Wireless Carrier Agonistic Bio-Monitoring Systems. In: Thuraisingham, B., Wang, X., Yegneswaran, V. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28865-9_48
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