TY - JOUR
T1 - Symmetric encryption relying on chaotic henon system for secure hardware-friendly wireless communication of implantable medical systems
AU - Belkhouja, Taha
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
AU - Mohamed, Amr
AU - Al-Ali, Abdulla K.
AU - Guizani, Mohsen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the authors.
PY - 2018/5/11
Y1 - 2018/5/11
N2 - Healthcare remote devices are recognized as a promising technology for treating health related issues. Among them are the wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs): These electronic devices are manufactured to treat, monitor, support or replace defected vital organs while being implanted in the human body. Thus, they play a critical role in healing and even saving lives. Current IMDs research trends concentrate on their medical reliability. However, deploying wireless technology in such applications without considering security measures may offer adversaries an easy way to compromise them. With the aim to secure these devices, we explore a new scheme that creates symmetric encryption keys to encrypt the wireless communication portion. We will rely on chaotic systems to obtain a synchronized Pseudo-Random key. The latter will be generated separately in the system in such a way that avoids a wireless key exchange, thus protecting patients from the key theft. Once the key is defined, a simple encryption system that we propose in this paper will be used. We analyze the performance of this system from a cryptographic point of view to ensure that it offers a better safety and protection for patients.
AB - Healthcare remote devices are recognized as a promising technology for treating health related issues. Among them are the wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs): These electronic devices are manufactured to treat, monitor, support or replace defected vital organs while being implanted in the human body. Thus, they play a critical role in healing and even saving lives. Current IMDs research trends concentrate on their medical reliability. However, deploying wireless technology in such applications without considering security measures may offer adversaries an easy way to compromise them. With the aim to secure these devices, we explore a new scheme that creates symmetric encryption keys to encrypt the wireless communication portion. We will rely on chaotic systems to obtain a synchronized Pseudo-Random key. The latter will be generated separately in the system in such a way that avoids a wireless key exchange, thus protecting patients from the key theft. Once the key is defined, a simple encryption system that we propose in this paper will be used. We analyze the performance of this system from a cryptographic point of view to ensure that it offers a better safety and protection for patients.
KW - Chaotic systems
KW - Implantable Medical Devices
KW - Pseudo-random keys
KW - Symmetric encryption
KW - Wireless communication
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U2 - 10.3390/jsan7020021
DO - 10.3390/jsan7020021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047910581
VL - 7
JO - Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
JF - Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
IS - 2
M1 - 21
ER -