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Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

  • Describes problems of security and privacy in implantable medical devices and proposes technological solutions
  • Includes basic abstractions of cryptographic services and primitives such as public key cryptography, block ciphers and digital signatures
  • Provides state-of-the-art research of interest to a multidisciplinary audience in electrical, computer and bio-engineering, computer networks and cryptography and medical and health sciences

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
  2. Introduction

    • Wayne Burleson, Sandro Carrara
    Pages 1-11
  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems

      • Francesco Valgimigli, Fabrizio Mastrantonio, Fausto Lucarelli
      Pages 15-82
    3. Wireless System with Multianalyte Implantable Biotransducer

      • Christian Kotanen, Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
      Pages 83-91
    4. New Concepts in Human Telemetry

      • Sandro Carrara
      Pages 93-128
  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. Segue

      • Wayne Burleson, Sandro Carrara
      Pages 155-156
    3. Design Challenges for Secure Implantable Medical Devices

      • Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Denis Foo Kune, Kevin Fu, Wayne P. Burleson
      Pages 157-173
    4. Attacking and Defending a Diabetes Therapy System

      • Chunxiao Li, Meng Zhang, Anand Raghunathan, Niraj K. Jha
      Pages 175-193
    5. Conclusions and A Vision of the Future

      • Sandro Carrara, Wayne Burleson
      Pages 195-199
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 201-205

About this book

This book presents a systematic approach to analyzing the challenging engineering problems posed by the need for security and privacy in implantable medical devices (IMD).  It describes in detail new issues termed as lightweight security, due to the associated constraints on metrics such as available power, energy, computing ability, area, execution time, and memory requirements. Coverage includes vulnerabilities and defense across multiple levels, with basic abstractions of cryptographic services and primitives such as public key cryptography, block ciphers and digital signatures. Experts from Computer Security and Cryptography present new research which shows vulnerabilities in existing IMDs and proposes solutions. Experts from Privacy Technology and Policy will discuss the societal, legal and ethical challenges surrounding IMD security as well as technological solutions that build on the latest in Computer Science privacy research, as well as lightweight solutions appropriate for implementation in IMDs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineeri, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Wayne Burleson

  • École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Sandro Carrara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

  • Editors: Wayne Burleson, Sandro Carrara

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1674-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1673-9

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4337-1

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1674-6

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Cryptology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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