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Software Authentication to Enhance Trust in Body Sensor Networks

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Security and Trust Management (STM 2012)

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This paper studies an approach to enhance the trust in the widespread use of Body Sensor Networks (BSN) in Healthcare. To address the wide variety in medical indications and differences between patients, we assume that such BSNs are programmable and highly flexible in their functionality. Yet this opens a vulnerability to malicious attacks and intrusion of the patient’s privacy. We study the work flow in a typical medical scenario, we map the (implied or evidence-based) trust relations and we use this to propose a scheme for verifying the authenticity and trustworthiness without prohibitively interfering with common practices. Our proposed framework is currently being refined in the VITRUVIUS project, for instance to test the feasibility of its implementation.

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  1. Signal Processing Systems Group, Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Joep de Groot & Jean-Paul Linnartz

  2. System Architecture and Networking Group, Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Vinh Bui, Johan Lukkien & Richard Verhoeven

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1080, 0316, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

    Audun Jøsang

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante, 65, 26013, Crema, CR, Italy

    Pierangela Samarati

  3. National Research Center(CNR), Institute of Informatics and Telematics(IIT), Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

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de Groot, J., Bui, V., Linnartz, JP., Lukkien, J., Verhoeven, R. (2013). Software Authentication to Enhance Trust in Body Sensor Networks. In: Jøsang, A., Samarati, P., Petrocchi, M. (eds) Security and Trust Management. STM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38004-4_16

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