TY - JOUR
T1 - Finger-to-heart(F2H)
T2 - authentication for wireless implantable medical devices
AU - Zheng, Guanglou
AU - Yang, Wencheng
AU - Valli, Craig
AU - Qiao, Li
AU - Shankaran, Rajan
AU - Orgun, Mehmet A.
AU - Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - Any proposal to provide security for implantable medical devices (IMDs),
such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, has to achieve a
trade-off between security and accessibility for doctors to gain access
to an IMD, especially in an emergency scenario. In this paper, we
propose a finger-to-heart (F2H) IMD authentication scheme to address
this trade-off between security and accessibility. This scheme utilizes a
patient's fingerprint to perform authentication for gaining access to
the IMD. Doctors can gain access to the IMD and perform emergency
treatment by scanning the patient's finger tip instead of asking the
patient for passwords/security tokens, thereby, achieving the necessary
trade-off. In the scheme, an improved minutia-cylinder-code-based
fingerprint authentication algorithm is proposed for the IMD by reducing
the length of each feature vector and the number of query feature
vectors. Experimental results show that the improved fingerprint
authentication algorithm significantly reduces both the size of messages
in transmission and computational overheads in the device, and thus,
can be utilized to secure the IMD. Compared to existing
electrocardiogram signal-based security schemes, the F2H scheme does not
require the IMD to capture or process biometric traits in every access
attempt since a fingerprint template is generated and stored in the IMD
beforehand. As a result, the scarce resources in the IMD are conserved,
making the scheme sustainable as well as energy efficient.
AB - Any proposal to provide security for implantable medical devices (IMDs),
such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, has to achieve a
trade-off between security and accessibility for doctors to gain access
to an IMD, especially in an emergency scenario. In this paper, we
propose a finger-to-heart (F2H) IMD authentication scheme to address
this trade-off between security and accessibility. This scheme utilizes a
patient's fingerprint to perform authentication for gaining access to
the IMD. Doctors can gain access to the IMD and perform emergency
treatment by scanning the patient's finger tip instead of asking the
patient for passwords/security tokens, thereby, achieving the necessary
trade-off. In the scheme, an improved minutia-cylinder-code-based
fingerprint authentication algorithm is proposed for the IMD by reducing
the length of each feature vector and the number of query feature
vectors. Experimental results show that the improved fingerprint
authentication algorithm significantly reduces both the size of messages
in transmission and computational overheads in the device, and thus,
can be utilized to secure the IMD. Compared to existing
electrocardiogram signal-based security schemes, the F2H scheme does not
require the IMD to capture or process biometric traits in every access
attempt since a fingerprint template is generated and stored in the IMD
beforehand. As a result, the scarce resources in the IMD are conserved,
making the scheme sustainable as well as energy efficient.
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U2 - 10.1109/JBHI.2018.2864796
DO - 10.1109/JBHI.2018.2864796
M3 - Article
C2 - 30106744
AN - SCOPUS:85052602254
SN - 2168-2194
VL - 23
SP - 1546
EP - 1557
JO - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
JF - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
IS - 4
ER -