IMD Security vs. Energy: Are we tilting at windmills?: POSTER

Muhammad Ali Siddiqi; Christos Strydis

doi:10.1145/3310273.3323421

IMD Security vs. Energy: Are we tilting at windmills? POSTER

Neurosciences

Research output: Chapter/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and neurostimulators are highly constrained in terms of energy. In addition, the wireless-communication facilities of these devices also impose security requirements considering their life-critical nature. However, security solutions that provide considerable coverage are generally considered to be too taxing on an IMD battery. Consequently, there has been a tendency to adopt ultra-lightweight security primitives for IMDs in literature. In this work, we demonstrate that the recent advances in embedded computing in fact enable the IMDs to use more mainstream security primitives, which do not need to compromise significantly on security for fear of impacting IMD autonomy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	283-285
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366854
ISBN (Print)	9781450366854
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3310273.3323421
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019
Event	16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2019 - Alghero, Sardinia, Italy Duration: 30 Apr 2019 → 2 May 2019

Publication series

Series	ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

Conference

Conference	16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2019
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Alghero, Sardinia
Period	30/04/19 → 2/05/19

Bibliographical note

This work has been supported by the EU-funded project SDK4ED (Grant Agreement No. 780572)

Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.

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EMC OR-01

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10.1145/3310273.3323421

http://hdl.handle.net/1765/118923

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Siddiqi, MA & Strydis, C 2019, IMD Security vs. Energy: Are we tilting at windmills? POSTER. in ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, pp. 283-285, 16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2019, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 30/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3310273.3323421

IMD Security vs. Energy: Are we tilting at windmills? POSTER. / Siddiqi, Muhammad Ali ; Strydis, Christos.
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