An ECG-based Secret Data Sharing scheme supporting emergency treatment of Implantable Medical Devices

• Published in: WPMC : 2014 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications : 7-10 September 2014, Sydney, Australia pp. 624 - 628
• Main Authors: Guanglou Zheng, Gengfa Fang, Shankaran, Rajan, Orgun, Mehmet A., Dutkiewicz, Eryk
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Information and Communicatio 01.09.2014
• Subjects: Communication system security; Cryptography; Electrocardiography; Medical services; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks

The security issue of wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) is an emerging area of research. The unique challenge here is that an IMD should be accessed by doctors with no authorization for emergency treatments while it still has to be protected from adversaries. In this paper, we propose a nov...