Trust-based DoS mitigation technique for medical implants in wireless body area networks

Muhammad Usman; Muhammad Rizwan Asghar; Imran Shafique Ansari; Fabrizio Granelli; Marwa Qaraqe

doi:10.1109/ICC.2019.8761504

Trust-based DoS mitigation technique for medical implants in wireless body area networks

Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, Fabrizio Granelli, Marwa Qaraqe

Electronic Engineering

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6 Citations (Scopus)

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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761504
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)

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ISSN (Print)	1550-3607
ISSN (Electronic)	1938-1883

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Conference	2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications
Abbreviated title	IEEE ICC 2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	20/05/19 → 24/05/19
Internet address	https://icc2019.ieee-icc.org/ (Link to conference website)

Keywords

DoS attack
environment sensing
trust
WBAN
privacy
security
healthcare systems
remote monitoring
implants
wearables

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Usman, M, Asghar, MR, Ansari, IS, Granelli, F & Qaraqe, M 2019, Trust-based DoS mitigation technique for medical implants in wireless body area networks. in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Shanghai, China, 20/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761504

Trust-based DoS mitigation technique for medical implants in wireless body area networks. / Usman, Muhammad; Asghar, Muhammad Rizwan; Ansari, Imran Shafique et al.

2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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