LIRA: A new key deployment scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks

A rapid development of the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) has become very important for applications in telemedicine and m-health. However, there is still a need to ensure a reliable and secure communication in these systems. In this paper we present a novel multi-channel key deployment scheme for wireless body sensor networks. The proposed key deployment scheme requires no public key cryptography and therefore is suitable for CPU-constrained sensor nodes. The solution is implemented on commercially available wireless sensor nodes while the performance of the system is shown through the experiments with users.