Security Requirements, Counterattacks and Projects in Healthcare Applications Using WSNs - A Review

Abstract Healthcare applications are well thought-out as interesting fields for WSN where patients can be examine using wireless medical sensor networks. Inside the hospital or extensive care surroundings there is a tempting need for steady monitoring of essential body functions and support for patient mobility. Recent research cantered on patient reliable communication, mobility, and energy-efficient routing. Yet deploying new expertise in healthcare applications presents some understandable security concerns which are the important concern in the inclusive deployment of wireless patient monitoring systems. This manuscript presents a survey of the security features, its counter attacks in healthcare applications including some proposed projects which have been done recently . Keywords: Wireless Body Sensor Networks, Wireless Body Area Network, Security 1. INTRODUCTION Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the new class of infinitesimal influential computer which have been ready due to possible advances in wireless communication field. This constructs of networks which is distributed and self-organized to supervise a healthcare monitoring system [1]. This paper has come up with a survey on the security issues along with different published projects regarding the Wireless body sensor networks (WBSN). WBSN also refers to wireless body area network (WBAN) is a wireless architecture consists of a number of body sensor units (BSUs) jointly with a single body central unit (BCU). This network consists of wearable computing devices which are under advancement. Yet these kinds of researches do not handle the argument it face while checking human body sensors. WBAN is an on-body implanted sensor having little power included in wireless devices to facilitate secluded monitoring [2]. In real time, the situation of various patients is being monitored constantly by this architecture. To monitor this physiological situation is one of the contemporary needs to input WSN in medical system. However this kind of applications has faced different challenges while designing. For instance communication between sensors needs to be reliable and interference free and also should provide flexibility to the user. The growth in WBAN should embody the advancement of diagnosis tools of the medical monitoring scheme.

[1]  Kyung Sup Kwak,et al.  Social Issues in wireless sensor networks with healthcare perspective , 2011, Int. Arab J. Inf. Technol..

[2]  Theodore S. Rappaport,et al.  A Survey of Recent Developments in Home M2M Networks , 2013, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

[3]  Budy P. Resosudarmo,et al.  Survey of recent developments , 2012 .

[4]  Mehmet Rasit Yuce,et al.  Implementation of wireless body area networks for healthcare systems , 2010 .

[5]  Pardeep Kumar,et al.  Security Issues in Healthcare Applications Using Wireless Medical Sensor Networks: A Survey , 2011, Sensors.

[6]  Divya Sharma,et al.  Body area networks: A survey , 2016, 2016 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom).

[7]  R. Sivakumar,et al.  Security in Wireless Body Area Networks : A survey , 2011 .

[8]  Aleksandar Milenkovic,et al.  Wireless sensor networks for personal health monitoring: Issues and an implementation , 2006, Comput. Commun..

[9]  Hyeong Seon Yoo,et al.  On the Security Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks , 2009, J. Digit. Content Technol. its Appl..

[10]  Hichem Snoussi,et al.  Wireless sensor networks in biomedical: Body area networks , 2011, International Workshop on Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications, WOSSPA.

[11]  T. Dimitriou,et al.  Security issues in biomedical wireless sensor networks , 2008, 2008 First International Symposium on Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies.

[12]  Ming Li,et al.  Data security and privacy in wireless body area networks , 2010, IEEE Wireless Communications.