Finger-to-Heart (F2H): Authentication for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices

• Published in: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 1546 - 1557
• Main Authors: Zheng, Guanglou, Yang, Wencheng, Valli, Craig, Qiao, Li, Shankaran, Rajan, Orgun, Mehmet A., Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.07.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access control; Accessibility; Algorithms; Authentication; Biomedical informatics; Biometric Identification - methods; biometrics; Communication system security; Computer applications; Computer Security; Cylinders; Defibrillators; EKG; Electrocardiography; Electronic implants; Energy efficiency; Feature extraction; Finger; fingerprint authentication; Fingerprint verification; Fingerprinting; Fingers - physiology; Heart; Humans; implantable medical devices (IMDs); Medical devices; Medical electronics; Medical equipment; Medical Informatics; Medical personnel; Medical services; network security; Pacemakers; Patients; Physicians; Prostheses and Implants; Security; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Surgical implants; Tradeoffs; Vectors; Wireless communication; Wireless Technology

Any proposal to provide security for implantable medical devices (IMDs), such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, has to achieve a trade-off between security and accessibility for doctors to gain access to an IMD, especially in an emergency scenario. In this paper, we propose a finger-to-heart...