Security issues in wireless body area networks - review

Abstract

Recently, Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBANs) becoming more attractive and have revealed a great prospective in real-time monitoring of the human body. WBANs have attracted an extensive variety of monitoring applications such as sport activity, healthcare and psychoanalysis systems. These wearable sensor systems plays significant role since it monitors and controls the patient life. Security Issues in Wireless Body Area Networks – Review reports the overview of WBAN architecture, various security requirements, WBAN routing protocols. Secure WBAN is essential to develop strong security system in order to protect the life critical applications. However providing security and privacy for wireless sensor network and WBAN is a critical and challenging one. Here a common outlook for secured WBAN is given along with the reviews of various protocols using security and privacy issues.