Survey on Attacks on Wireless Body Area Network

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) gained a lot of focuses by researchers in the last few decades because of its wide application in many different fields such as Body Area Network (BAN), Robotics, Military surveillance, Home surveillance, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) etc. In Body Area Network, low power sensor nodes (invasive or non-invasive) are used to capture different vital signs of patients at home or at hospitals for analysis and to suggest appropriate measures. This paper states the different attack WSN faces due to the vulnerability of the network. Also trust management, privacy is a concern as still researchers are on the making of standards.