@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3298,
	  title     = {Security Architecture for At-Home Medical Care Using Sensor Network},
	  author    = {S.S.Mohanavalli and  Sheila Anand},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {This paper proposes a novel architecture for At-
Home medical care which enables senior citizens, patients
with chronic ailments and patients requiring post- operative
care to be remotely monitored in the comfort of their homes.
This architecture is implemented using sensors and wireless
networking for transmitting patient data to the hospitals,
health- care centers for monitoring by medical professionals.
Patients are equipped with sensors to measure their
physiological parameters, like blood pressure, pulse rate etc.
and a Wearable Data Acquisition Unit is used to transmit the
patient sensor data. Medical professionals can be alerted to
any abnormal variations in these values for diagnosis and
suitable treatment. Security threats and challenges inherent to
wireless communication and sensor network have been
discussed and a security mechanism to ensure data
confidentiality and source authentication has been proposed.
Symmetric key algorithm AES has been used for encrypting
the data and a patent-free, two-pass block cipher mode CCFB
has been used for implementing semantic security.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering},
	  volume    = {4},
	  number    = {12},
	  year      = {2010},
	  pages     = {1828 - 1831},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3298},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/48},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 48, 2010},
	}