Biometric behavior authentication exploiting propagation characteristics of wireless channel
Issue Date
2016-08-24Subjects
wireless channel characteristicsauthentication
physical layer security
Subject Categories::G420 Networks and Communications
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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.Citation
Zhao N, Ren A, Ur-Rehman M, Zhang Z, Yang X, Hu F (2016) 'Biometric behavior authentication exploiting propagation characteristics of wireless channel', IEEE Access, 4, pp.4789-4796.Journal
IEEE AccessAdditional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7551168Type
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2169-3536EISSN
2169-3536ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2602286
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