• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.322-332
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• 2017

WBAN(Wireless Body Area Networks)은 센서를 통해 사용자의 생체 정보를 수집하고 사용자가 요구하는 서비스를 제공해주는 환경을 말한다. 센서의 중요성이 점차 높아짐에 따라 WBAN 또한 주목받고 있다. WBAN은 대표적으로 의료 분야에서 사용되고 환자의 생명과 직결될 수 있다는 문제를 가지고 있기 때문에 안전성은 매우 중요하다. 또한 WBAN에서 사용되는 기기는 연산량에 제한이 있기 때문에 효율성도 매우 중요하게 고려되어야 한다. 이에 따라 WBAN 환경에서의 ID 기반 익명 인증에 관한 연구가 최근 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최근 Wu et al.이 제안한 WBAN 환경에서의 ID 기반 익명 인증 기법이 위장 공격에 취약하다는 것을 보인다. 그리고 Wu et al. 기법 등 이전에 제안되었던 기법들에 대해서 밝혀진 공격에 안전한 새로운 ID 기반 익명 인증 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 기법은 이전에 제안된 기법들과 비교해서 30.6%, 7.3%만큼 연산량이 개선되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2021

One of the major challenges in wireless body area networks (WBANs) is sensor fault detection. This paper reports a method for the precise identification of faulty sensors, which should help users identify true medical conditions and reduce the rate of false alarms, thereby improving the quality of services offered by WBANs. The proposed sensor fault detection (SFD) algorithm is based on Pearson correlation coefficients and simple statistical methods. The proposed method identifies strongly correlated parameters using Pearson correlation coefficients, and the proposed SFD algorithm detects faulty sensors. We validated the proposed SFD algorithm using two datasets from the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care database and compared the results to those of existing methods. The time complexity of the proposed algorithm was also compared to that of existing methods. The proposed algorithm achieved high detection rates and low false alarm rates with accuracies of 97.23% and 93.99% for Dataset 1 and Dataset 2, respectively.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.499-505
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템을 위한 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜에서 요구되는 신체 영역 위치인식기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 위치인식기술은 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 주변 장치를 구성하는 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 기반 센서노드에서 실행된다. 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템에서 다양한 신체 모션을 통한 입력 정보의 정확성을 높이기위해서는, 높은 정밀도를 갖는 새로운 위치인식기술이 반드시 개발되어야 한다. 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위해, 본 논문은 신체에 부착된 WUSB over WBAN 디바이스들의 개수를 4개 이상으로 하는 TDoA/FDoA/AoA 복합 방식을 제안한다. 실험 결과에서는 제안하는 TDoA/FDoA/AoA의 복합 방식 알고리즘이 TDoA/FDoA 복합 알고리즘 보다 위치 추정 오차를 10mm 감소시킨다. 이 값은 다른 통신 시스템에서는 무시할 수 있는 작은 값이나, 신체 영역 내 통신에서는 위치 추정 성능을 향상시키는 결과를 나타낸다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.160-166
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• 2011

In u-healthcare services based on wireless body sensor networks, reliable connection is very important as many types of information, including vital signals, are transmitted through the networks. The transmit power requirements are very stringent in the case of in-body networks for implant communication. Furthermore, the wireless link in an in-body environment has a high degree of path loss (e.g., the path loss exponent is around 6.2 for deep tissue). Because of such inherently bad settings of the communication nodes, a multi-hop network topology is preferred in order to meet the transmit power requirements and to increase the battery lifetime of sensor nodes. This will ensure that the live body of a patient receiving the healthcare service has a reduced level of specific absorption ratio (SAR) when exposed to long-lasting radiation. We propose an efficientmethod for delivering delay-intolerant data packets over multiple hops. We consider forward error correction (FEC) in an erasure correction mode and develop a mathematical formulation for packet-level scheduling of delay-intolerant FEC packets over multiple hops. The proposed method can be used as a simple guideline for applications to setting up a topology for a medical body sensor network of each individual patient, which is connected to a remote server for u-healthcare service applications.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.5218-5233
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• 2018

The coexisting wireless body area networks (WBAN) is a very challenging issue because of strong inter-networks interference, which seriously affects energy consumption and spectrum utilization ratio. In this paper, we study a power control strategy with nearest neighbor nodes distribution for coexisting WBAN based on stochastic geometry. Using homogeneous Poisson point processes (PPP) model, the relationship between the transmission power and the networks distribution is analytically derived to reduce interference to other devices. The goal of this paper is to increase the transmission success probability and throughput through power control strategy. In addition, we evaluate the area spectral efficiency simultaneously active WBAN in the same channel. Finally, extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the power control algorithm.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.879-884
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 웨어러블 컴퓨터 시스템을 위한 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜에서 요구되는 에너지 효율적인 시간동기 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이를 위해 전력 소모를 최소화 하면서 정밀한 시간 동기가 이루어지는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시간 동기 알고리즘은 웨어러블 컴퓨터의 주변 장치를 구성하는 WUSB over WBAN 프로토콜 기반 센서 노드에서, 계층적인 구조를 구성하고 Time Stamp 패킷을 송수신하는 방식으로 빠르게 실행되어 전력소모를 최소화한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.221-237
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• 2016

The wireless body area networks (WBANs) consist of wearable computing devices and can support various healthcare-related applications. There exist two crucial issues when WBANs are utilized for healthcare applications. One is the protection of the sensitive biometric data transmitted over the insecure wireless channels. The other is the design of effective medical management mechanisms. In this paper, a secure medical information management system is proposed and implemented on a TinyOS-based WBAN test bed to simultaneously address these two issues. In this system, the electronic medical record (EMR) is bound to the biometric data with a novel fragile zero-watermarking scheme based on the modified visual secret sharing (MVSS). In this manner, the EMR can be utilized not only for medical management but also for data integrity checking. Additionally, both the biometric data and the EMR are encrypted, and the EMR is further protected by the MVSS. Our analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system not only protects the confidentialities of both the biometric data and the EMR but also offers reliable patient information authentication, explicit healthcare operation verification and undeniable doctor liability identification for WBANs.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.465-472
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• 2019

The major challenge in wireless body area networks (WBAN) is setting up a protected communication between data consumers and a body area network controller while meeting the security and privacy requirements. This paper proposes efficient and secure data communication in WBANs using a Twofish symmetric algorithm and ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with constant size ciphertext; in addition, the proposed scheme incorporates policy updating to update access policies. To the best of the author's knowledge, policy updating in WBAN has not been studied in earlier works. The proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of message size, energy consumption, and computation cost, and the results are compared with those of existing schemes. The result shows that the proposed method can achieve higher efficiency than conventional methods.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.452-464
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• 2019

The use of wireless body area networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications has made it convenient to monitor both health personnel and patient status continuously in real time through wearable wireless sensor nodes. However, the heterogeneous and complex network structure of WBANs has some disadvantages in terms of control and management. The software-defined network (SDN) approach is a promising technology that defines a new design and management approach for network communications. In order to create more flexible and dynamic network structures in WBANs, this study uses the SDN approach. For this, a WBAN architecture based on the SDN approach with a new energy-aware routing algorithm for healthcare architecture is proposed. To develop a more flexible architecture, a controller that manages all HUBs is designed. The proposed architecture is modeled using the Riverbed Modeler software for performance analysis. The simulation results show that the SDN-based structure meets the service quality requirements and shows superior performance in terms of energy consumption, throughput, successful transmission rate, and delay parameters according to the traditional routing approach.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1267-1285
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• 2012

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) deal with variety of healthcare services with diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. However, QoS handling is a challenging problem in such networks. In general, QoS related problems can be addressed from different layers in the networking protocol suite. Design of an efficient QoS aware Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol can address this problem in MAC layer. This paper analyzes the QoS requirements of WBAN, identifies the requisites of QoS handling system, and outlines the trends that are being followed for its advancement with focus on QoS issues at MAC layer. We review some prior works, compare them, and analyze the current research concerned with problem of providing QoS in WBAN. We also explore some open issues and discuss them.