Securing health monitoring via body-centric time-frequency signature authorization

Identity-based attacks serve as the basis of an intruder’s attempt to launch security infringements in mobile health monitoring scenarios. Wireless channel perturbations due to the presence of human body are a relative phenomenon depending heavily on the subject’s dielectric properties. A new Body-Centric Signature Authorization (B-CSAI) approach based on time-frequency domain characteristics was proposed. This method utilizes multiple millimeter wave bands of 27-28 GHz, 29-30 GHz, and 31-32 GHz, thereby enhancing the security in body-centric communications exploiting benefits of subject specific channel signature. The proposed bornprint method is based on the intrinsic identity related time-frequency domain information, which generated by the user’s natural hand motion signature and resulting creeping waves and space waves. It can meet the unconditional keyless authorization requirements. A detailed measurement campaign considering radiation efficiency (η = -25.8, -24.7, -26.4), pathloss exponent, and shadowing factor in three millimeter wave bands, using six human subjects confirm the usability and efficiency of the proposed approach. This also shows that there is a wide space for realizing security from physical mechanisms