Abstract: Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a collection of wireless sensor nodes which can be placed within the body or outside the body of a human or a living person which in result observes or monitors the functionality and adjoining situations of the body. Utilizing a Wireless Body Area Network, the patient encounters a greater physical versatility and is never again constrained to remain in the hospital. As the Wireless Body Area Network sensor devices is being utilized for gathering the sensitive data and possibly will run into antagonistic situations, they require complicated and very secure security medium or structure to avoid the vitriolic communications within the system. These devices represent various security and privacy protection of touchy and private patient medical data. The medical records of patients are a significant and an unsolved situation due to which a changing or exploitation to the system is possible. In this research paper, we first present an overview of WBAN, how they utilized for healthcare monitoring, its architecture then highlight major security and privacy requirements and assaults at different network layer in a WBAN and we finally talk about various cryptographic algorithms and laws for providing solution of security and privacy in WBAN.

Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, Muhammad Ahmed, Tahir Abdullah, Naila Kousar, Mehak Nigar Shumaila and Muhammad Awais, “Wireless Body Area Network Security and Privacy Issue in E-Healthcare” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 9(4), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090433

@article{Malik2018,
title = {Wireless Body Area Network Security and Privacy Issue in E-Healthcare},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090433},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090433},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
author = {Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik and Muhammad Ahmed and Tahir Abdullah and Naila Kousar and Mehak Nigar Shumaila and Muhammad Awais}
}