Software application based on ECC to compute parameters of security association protocols specified in IEEE 802.15.6 Standard.

Abstract

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a network of nodes which has emerged as a technology for medical and a non-medical application operating in the vicinity of, or inside a human body. The security services are necessary for preserving the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information from users of WBAN. Standard 802.15.6 provides several association protocols within security services. In order to generate the parameters necessaries for setting the association protocols, this paper developed a software application that computes a Pk based on elliptic curve method. The Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has been analysed in a mathematic form to proceed to the development of algorithms inside the software. The parameters defined in Std. 802.15.6 are probed in this software with the aim of having a tool to be used in every association protocol.