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Assurance Of Energy Efficiency And Data Security For Ecg Transmission In Basns, Tao Ma, Pradhumna Shrestha, Michael Hempel, Dongming Peng, Hamid Sharif, Hsiao-Hwa Chen Apr 2012

Assurance Of Energy Efficiency And Data Security For Ecg Transmission In Basns, Tao Ma, Pradhumna Shrestha, Michael Hempel, Dongming Peng, Hamid Sharif, Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

With the technological advancement in body area sensor networks (BASNs), low cost high quality electrocardiographic (ECG) diagnosis systems have become important equipment for healthcare service providers. However, energy consumption and data security with ECG systems in BASNs are still two major challenges to tackle. In this study, we investigate the properties of compressed ECG data for energy saving as an effort to devise a selective encryption mechanism and a two-rate unequal error protection (UEP) scheme. The proposed selective encryption mechanism provides a simple and yet effective security solution for an ECG sensor-based communication platform, where only one percent of data …


Techniques For Detection Of Malicious Packet Drops In Networks, Vikram R. Desai Jan 2012

Techniques For Detection Of Malicious Packet Drops In Networks, Vikram R. Desai

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

The introduction of programmability and dynamic protocol deployment in routers, there would be an increase in the potential vulnerabilities and attacks . The next- generation Internet promises to provide a fundamental shift in the underlying architecture to support dynamic deployment of network protocols. In this thesis, we consider the problem of detecting malicious packet drops in routers. Specifically, we focus on an attack scenario, where a router selectively drops packets destined for another node. Detecting such an attack is challenging since it requires differentiating malicious packet drops from congestion-based packet losses. We propose a controller- based malicious packet detection technique …