A MORE SECURE AND RELIABLE PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM

Priya S. Wagh, Anagha P.Khedkar

Abstract: Hacking of Wireless network leading to insecure data is the main issue that needs to be attended. To achieve the goal of data security, there is need of the new protocol development especially for medical applications using wireless communication. The conventional system usually uses broadcast or multicast communication mode to increase the signal reliability; however, these modes lead to network traffic and signal transmission delay. The proposed system includes a reliable protocol which is based on anycast communication mode for wireless patient monitoring system and Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) security algorithms to ensure data security. On the basis of a reliable scheme, the proposed work is to design and implement this novel system using ZigBee device for patient monitoring, which integrates fall detection, temperature, pulse rate monitoring. The result of reliable protocol implementation assures the communication without fail mechanism, minimizes network traffic and transmission delay.

Keywords: Anycast, Rivest Cipher 4, Reliable Protocol, Zigbee.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304126