Many current and future medical devices are wearable and human body is used as a carrier for wireless communication, which implies human body to be a crucial part of the transmission medium in body area networks (BANs). In order to understand the propagation characteristics around human body, the statistical model is derived for communication links in the medical implant communication service b...

Intra-body transmission, which uses human body as part of the transmission medium is one of the promising data transmission methods for constructing Personal Area Network (PAN) or Body Area Network (BAN). Since signal propagates mainly through the human body, power consumption is smaller and transmission is less susceptive to eavesdropping. One of the difficulties in intra-body transmission is ...

In order for two sensors within a body area network to determine they are on the same body, e.g., for security purposes, extensive prior work considers the use of physiological values. We study the practicality of using body physiological values for securely exchanging messages for sharing keys. Due to its popularity in the literature, we use electrocardiography (ECG) signals, and show that car...