Sponsored by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), this is a project on the applications of biometric technologies for security and privacy protection. The target domains include telemedicine and pervasive health monitoring, especially for the emerging body area networks (BAN) IEEE 802.15.6. With an annual budget of $145,000 over three years, our industrial partners include Bell Canada and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
Our goal is to develop a security architecture for “body-proximity” wireless networks of sensors and communication access nodes, to efficiently secure and protect sensitive personal information in applications of health care, home care and medical emergencies among others. Our research objectives within this framework are:
By employing biometrics feature extraction methods, biometric authentication, and biometrics enabled cryptosystems, develop a user-centric security solution to enforce strong security policies and guarantee trustworthy information processing.
By properly controlling the interaction between application and biometrics-enabled user and network authentication, develop and implement a trusted applications paradigm where access, processing and control of vital personal information will be efficient and secured.
Based on the above general objectives, specific action milestones are as follows:
Determining state of the art in proposed technologies;
Cryptographic device key establishment and distribution;
Design and development of test-bed for feasibility testing and performance evaluation.
For a recent undergraduate project related to BUSNet, refer to the following poster and presentation slides, entitled "Interpreting Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) for Sensor Abnormalities".
