Abstract
Medical implants are an important part of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and play an important role to monitor, diagnose, and control various medical conditions. These tiny sensors are injected inside human body to measure and communicate various vital signs of a human body. Since the information transmitted by implants is very sensitive and critical in nature, both availability and confidentiality of such information are of prime importance. A possible security threat in medical implants that can breach the availability of the medical implants is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. In this work, we propose a solution to mitigate DoS attack in the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) network. We propose a three-level trust model for a MICS network based on its environment and couple a threshold of maximum allowed data rate to each environment. The simulation results show that DoS attacks can be seamlessly mitigated in many MICS settings.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538680889 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781538680896 |
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Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2019 |
Event | 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications - Oriental Riverside Hotel, Shanghai, China Duration: 20 May 2019 → 24 May 2019 https://icc2019.ieee-icc.org/ (Link to conference website) |
Publication series
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ISSN (Print) | 1550-3607 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1938-1883 |
Conference
Conference | 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications |
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Abbreviated title | IEEE ICC 2019 |
Country/Territory | China |
City | Shanghai |
Period | 20/05/19 → 24/05/19 |
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Keywords
- DoS attack
- environment sensing
- trust
- WBAN
- privacy
- security
- healthcare systems
- remote monitoring
- implants
- wearables