TITLE:
Deployment of Hash Function to Enhance Message Integrity in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)
AUTHORS:
Ahmed Alzubi, Arif Sari
KEYWORDS:
Message Integrity, WBAN Security, Health Care Monitoring System, Hash Function, Path Loss
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.9 No.12,
December
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: Message integrity is found to prove the
transfer information of patient in health care monitoring system on the human
body in order to collect and communicate the human personal data. Wireless body
area network (WBAN) applications are the fast growing technology trend but
security and privacy are still largely ignored, since they are hard to achieve
given the limited computation and energy resources available at sensor node
level. In this paper, we propose simple hash based message authentication and
integrity code algorithm for wireless sensor networks. We test the proposed
algorithm in MATLAB on path loss model around the human body in two scenarios
and compare the result before and after enhancement and show how sensors are
connected with each other to prove the message integrity in monitoring health
environment.