Wireless body area network, key generation method and key distribution method in the wireless body area network, and related device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11212672-B2
Application number	US-202017036222-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2020
Priority date	Sep 20, 2019
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

The embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to the technical field of computer science and application technology, and disclose a wireless body area network, a key generation method and a key distribution method in the wireless body area network, and a related device. The gait acceleration signal is extracted synchronously through the respective acceleration acquisition devices integrated with the coordinator and the wearable equipment, the position information corresponding to the peak value and the valley value in the gait acceleration signal is correspondingly extracted and is taken as the gait common information, and the gait common information is used to perform key distribution in the wireless body area network, the security and the consistency are higher, the calculation is simplified, the key distribution method is suitable for wearable devices having limited resources.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless body area network, comprising: a coordinator node and at least one wearable device in communication with the coordinator node, both the coordinator node and the at least one wearable device being integrated with an acceleration acquisition device, wherein:
the coordinator node is configured to send a message of synchronously collecting data to the at least one wearable device, to collect a first gait acceleration signal, to extract first gait common information in the first gait acceleration signal, to generate key encryption information according to a key to be distributed and the first gait common information, and to send the key encryption information to the at least one wearable device;
the at least one wearable device is configured to receive the message of synchronously collecting data, and to synchronously collect a second gait acceleration signal according to the message of synchronously collecting data, to extract second gait common information in the second gait acceleration signal, to receive the key encryption information, and to decrypt the key encryption information to obtain the key to be distributed according to the second gait common information;
wherein the first gait common information comprises position information corresponding to a peak value and a valley value of the first gait acceleration signal, the second gait common information comprises position information corresponding to a peak value and a valley value of the second gait acceleration signal.

2. The wireless body area network according to claim 1 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
generate the key to be distributed according to a noise signal in the first gait acceleration signal.

3. The wireless body area network according to claim 2 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
extract the noise signal in the first gait acceleration signal;
encode the noise signal to obtain an initial key; and
perform a key enhancement operation on the initial key to obtain the key to be distributed.

4. The wireless body area network according to claim 3 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
perform a zero-phase filtering on the first gait acceleration signal to obtain a filtered first gait acceleration signal; and
subtract the filtered first gait acceleration signal from the first gait acceleration signal to obtain the noise signal.

5. The wireless body area network according to claim 4 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
input the first gait acceleration signal to a low-pass Butterworth filter to obtain a firstly filtered first gait acceleration signal as output by the low-pass Butterworth filter;
perform a time reversal operation on the firstly filtered first gait acceleration signal to obtain a firstly inverted first gait acceleration signal;
input the firstly inverted first gait acceleration signal into the low-pass Butterworth filter to obtain a secondly filtered first gait acceleration signal as output by the low-pass Butterworth filter;
perform a time reversal operation on the secondly filtered first gait acceleration signal to obtain a secondly inverted first gait acceleration signal, wherein the secondly inverted first gait acceleration signal is the filtered first gait acceleration signal.

6. The wireless body area network according to claim 3 , wherein the acceleration acquisition device is a three-axis acceleration sensor, the noise signal comprises a first noise signal of a X-axis, a second noise signal of a Y-axis, and a third noise signal of a Z-axis;
the coordinator node is further configured to:
set a bit corresponding to a first binary random sequence as a corresponding value to obtain a first key according to a numerical value of each bit in the first noise signal;
set a bit corresponding to a second binary random sequence as a corresponding value to obtain a second key according to a numerical value of each bit in the second noise signal; and
set a bit corresponding to a third binary random sequence as a corresponding value to obtain a third key according to a numerical value of each bit in the third noise signal;
wherein a kth bit in a binary random sequence is set as a first value if a kth bit in the noise signal is greater than or equal to 0; or the kth bit in the binary random sequence is set as a second value if the kth bit in the noise signal is less than 0, wherein k is an integer.

7. The wireless body area network according to claim 6 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
perform an XOR operation on the first key, the second key, and the third key to obtain the key to be distributed;
or,
perform an XOR operation on the first key, the second key, and the third key to obtain keys being processed by the XOR operation, and
perform a down-sampling on the obtained keys being processed by the XOR operation to obtain the key to be distributed.

8. The wireless body area network according to claim 1 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
perform a low-pass filtering on the first gait acceleration signal;
perform a dimension reduction operation on the low-pass filtered first gait acceleration signal to obtain a dimension-reduced first gait acceleration signal; and
extract first position information corresponding to a peak value and a valley value of the dimension-reduced first gait acceleration signal in a time domain and in a frequency domain, respectively.

9. The wireless body area network according to claim 8 , wherein the coordinator node is further configured to:
extract the first position information corresponding to the peak value and the valley value of the dimension-reduced first gait acceleration signal and the first position information corresponding to the peak value and the valley value of a fast Fourier transform result of the dimension-reduced first gait acceleration signal based on a signed sliding window coding algorithm;
wherein a process of the signed sliding window coding algorithm includes:
the signed sliding window slides on the dimension-reduced first gait acceleration signal, when a peak value occurs in a ith window, a common information pool increases by i; when a valley value occurs in the ith window, the common information pool decreases by i; when a peak value and/or a valley value don't occur in the ith window, the signed sliding window continues to slide, wherein i is an integer.

10. The wireless body area network according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one wearable device is further configured to:
perform a low-pass filtering on the second gait acceleration signal;
perform a dimension reduction operation on the low-pass filtered second gait acceleration signal to obtain a dimension-reduced second gait acceleration signal; and
extract second position information of the peak value and valley value of the dimension-reduced second gait acceleration signal in a time domain, and second position information of the peak value and valley value of the dimension-reduced second gait acceleration signal in a frequency domain, respectively.

11. The wireless body area network according to claim 10 , wherein the at least one wearable device is further configured:
extract second position information corresponding to the peak value and the valley value of the dimension-reduced second gait acceleration signal and second position information corresponding to the peak value and the valley value of a fast Fourier transform result of the dimension-reduced second gait acceleration signal, based on the signed sliding window coding algorithm;
wherein a process of the signed sliding window coding algorithm includes:
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Assignees

• Shenzhen Inst Of Adv Tech Cas

Inventors

• Sun Fangmin
• Li Ye

Classifications

• H04L9/0861

  Generation of secret information including derivation or calculation of cryptographic keys or passwords · CPC title

• H04L9/083

  involving central third party, e.g. key distribution center [KDC] or trusted third party [TTP] · CPC title

• H04L9/0819 Primary

  Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely transfers it to the other(s) (network architectures or network communication protocols for key distribution in a packet data network H04L63/062) · CPC title

• H04L2209/80

  Wireless · CPC title

• H04B13/005

  Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body · CPC title