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Biometric behavior authentication exploiting propagation characteristics of wireless channel

  • Nan Zhao
    ,
  • Aifeng Ren
    ,
  • Masood Ur Rehman
    ,
  • Zhiya Zhang
    ,
  • Xiaodong Yang
    ,
  • Fangming Hu
  • Xidian University
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Abstract

Massive expansion of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in the field of health monitoring applications has given rise to the generation of huge amount of biomedical data. Ensuring privacy and security of this very personal data serves as a major hurdle in the development of these systems. An effective and energy friendly authentication algorithm is, therefore, a necessary requirement for current WBANs. Conventional authentication algorithms are often implemented on higher levels of the Open System Interconnection model and require advanced software or major hardware upgradation. This paper investigates the implementation of a physical layer security algorithm as an alternative. The algorithm is based on the behavior fingerprint developed using the wireless channel characteristics. The usability of the algorithm is established through experimental results, which show that this authentication method is not only effective, but also very suitable for the energy-, resource-, and interface-limited WBAN medical applications.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Article number

7551168

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 4789-4796 (8 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

IEEE Access (Volume 4)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 24/08/2016

Publication status

Published - 24/08/2016

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624343
  • Scopus: 84991610654

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