A LIGHT WEIGHT PROTOCOL TO PROVIDE LOCATION PRIVACY IN WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS
Mohammed Mana1, Mohammed Feham1, and Boucif Amar Bensaber2
STIC Lab., Department of telecommunications, University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen,Algeria
2Laboratoire de mathématiques et informatique appliquées LAMIA, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières C.P. 500 Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada G9A 5H7
ABSTRACT
Location privacy is one of the major security problems in a Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). An eavesdropper can keep track of the place and time devices are communicating. To make things even worse, the attacker does not have to be physically close to the communicating devices, he can use a device with a stronger antenna. The unique hardware address of a mobile device can often be linked to the identity of the user operating the device. This represents a violation of the user’s privacy. The user should decide when his/her location is revealed and when not. In this paper, we first categorize the type of eavesdroppers for WBANs, and then we propose a new scheme to provide the location privacy in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs).
KEYWORDS
Wireless Body Area Networks, location privacy, Eavesdroppers, attack games.
Original Source Link : http://airccse.org/journal/nsa/0311nsa01.pdf
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