The Applicability of Electrocardiogram (ECG) As Biometrics in Securing the Communication of Wireless Body Area Network

A recent trend in the field of biometrics is ECGbased, where electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are used as input to the biometric system. Previous work has shown that ECG has a good potential, which can be used alone as a biometric parameter or in combination with some other parameters for greater accuracy, due to its main key properties. This paper presents a study on the applicability of ECG signals in securing Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) communications. We study the permanence and the distinctiveness properties of ECG signals on 20 random patients. The Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) are applied on the ECG signals obtained from MITBIH Normal Synus Rhythm (nsrdb) and MIT-BIH Arrhythmia (mitdb) public database. The experimental results are presented, which exhibit that ECG signal can be utilized properly to achieve better security performance under the stringent constraints of WBAN sensors. Thus, it is believed that the system can naturally secure the information transmission within WBAN, where other techniques use hardware and software to achieve the same purpose.

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