TY - JOUR
T1 - New plain-text authentication secure scheme for implantable medical devices with remote control
AU - Belkhouja, Taha
AU - Du, Xiaojang
AU - Mohamed, Amr
AU - Al-Ali, Abdulla K.
AU - Guizani, Mohsen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Implantable medical devices are being increasingly used to treat or monitor different medical conditions. For such purposes, wireless is the most desired communication scheme to be implemented in these devices. On the other hand, the wireless scheme increases security threats on these electronic devices, and any possibility of attack on the medical device may have lethal consequences. The patients usually have their implantable medical devices configured and monitored by their doctors. But for practical purposes, most of the time they possess a remote control for daily non-critical operations. This remote control can be considered as an open gate for attackers to target those medical devices and cause major harm. Motivated by this, we analyze in this paper the communication scheme implemented in the wireless devices, having as a starting point an Implantable Insulin Pump to develop a new protocol that can be used in the remote controlimplantable device communication, and that will rely on plain text messages to avoid encryption implementation. Finally, we will analyze how the novelties introduced with this protocol can secure such a wireless link.
AB - Implantable medical devices are being increasingly used to treat or monitor different medical conditions. For such purposes, wireless is the most desired communication scheme to be implemented in these devices. On the other hand, the wireless scheme increases security threats on these electronic devices, and any possibility of attack on the medical device may have lethal consequences. The patients usually have their implantable medical devices configured and monitored by their doctors. But for practical purposes, most of the time they possess a remote control for daily non-critical operations. This remote control can be considered as an open gate for attackers to target those medical devices and cause major harm. Motivated by this, we analyze in this paper the communication scheme implemented in the wireless devices, having as a starting point an Implantable Insulin Pump to develop a new protocol that can be used in the remote controlimplantable device communication, and that will rely on plain text messages to avoid encryption implementation. Finally, we will analyze how the novelties introduced with this protocol can secure such a wireless link.
KW - Implantable insulin pump
KW - Remote control
KW - Secure authentication
KW - Wireless communication
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8255015
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8255015
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85046425981
SN - 2334-0983
VL - 2018-January
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
JF - Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM
T2 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2017
Y2 - 4 December 2017 through 8 December 2017
ER -