• Evaluating Secrecy Capacity for In-Body Wireless Channels 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Fang, Xiao; Ramzan, Mehrab; Neumann, Niels; Wang, Qiong; Plettemeier, Dirk; Kansanen, Kimmo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The next generation of implanted medical devices is expected to be wireless, bringing along new security threats. Thus, it is critical to secure the communication between legitimate nodes inside the body from a possible ...
    • Evaluation of Secrecy Capacity for Next-Generation Leadless Cardiac Pacemaker 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Bose, Pritam; Khaleghi, Ali; Kansanen, Kimmo; Balasingham, Ilangko (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Secure communication can be considered as an integral part of the next generation implantable medical devices. With the advent of physical layer security (PLS) methods, confidential messages can be transmitted without the ...
    • Experimental phantom-based evaluation of Physical Layer Security for Future Leadless Cardiac Pacemaker 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Simbor, Sofia Perez; García-Pardo, Concepción; Kansanen, Kimmo; Bose, Pritam; Castello-Palacios, Sergio; Cardona, Narcís (Chapter, 2018)
      Next generation of cardiac pacemakers are expected to be completely wireless bringing along new security threats. Thus, it is critical to secure the pacemaker transmissions between legitimate nodes from a third party or ...
    • Experimental Phantom-Based Security Analysis for Next-Generation Leadless Cardiac Pacemakers 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Simbor, Sofia Perez; García-Pardo, Concepción; Kansanen, Kimmo; Cardona, Narcis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      With technological advancement, implanted medical devices can treat a wide range of chronic diseases such as cardiac arrhythmia, deafness, diabetes, etc. Cardiac pacemakers are used to maintain normal heart rhythms. The ...
    • Physical Layer Security for In-Body Wireless Cardiac Sensor Network 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:136, Doctoral thesis, 2020)
      The thesis explores the physical layer security approaches for securing an in body multi-nodal leadless cardiac pacemaker (LCP) communication system. Pacemakers are implanted medical devices, used to treat different types ...
    • RSS-Based Secret Key Generation in Wireless In-body Networks 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Kansanen, Kimmo; perez, Sofia; García-Pardo, Concepción; Cardona, Narcís (International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology;, Chapter, 2019)
      Secure communication is considered as an integral part of next generation wireless implantable medical devices. In this work, we provide the symmetric cryptographic key generating approach by exploiting the randomness in ...
    • Securing Next Generation Multinodal Leadless Cardiac Pacemaker System: A Proof of Concept in a Single Animal 

      Awan, Muhammad Faheem; Cordero, Rafael; Kansanen, Kimmo; Feuerstein, Delphine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As the next generation of implanted medical devices for cardiac rhythm management moves towards multi-nodal leadless systems that do without the limitations of transvenous leads, new security threats arise from the wireless ...