Authors:
Lake Bu
and
Mark G. Karpovsky
Affiliation:
Boston Univerisity, United States
Keyword(s):
Implantable Medical Devices, Security, Eavesdropping, Hijack, Tampering, Replay, Man-in-the-middle, Encryption, Authentication, AES, AMD, Error Control Codes.
Abstract:
Implantable medical devices (IMDs) have increasing impact in people’s life nowadays. With the development
of electrical and computer engineering, the IMDs are of great convenience to patients by their small sizes and
portable wireless monitors or controllers. However, because of the insecure wireless communication between
the devices and their controllers, it makes way for attackers to passively and actively attack the devices and
so the patients. Unlike other attacks which target on victims’ information or property, the medical attacks
threat victims’ life directly. Up to now there are few efficient solutions to those attacks which balance security,
reliability, and power consumption. In response to the situation, this paper proposes a scheme against the
existing and potential attacks to IMDs while keeping a low overhead in hardware and power consumption.