Development of advanced sensor materials and encryption techniques for secure Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in healthcare applications

ABSTRACT Advancements in the fundamental healthcare technology known as Wireless Body Area Networks transform wearables into a medium to monitor healthcare in real time. Advanced materials become essential for sensor fabrication within body-deployed systems that need to collect precise data and maintain low power requirements and extended lifecycles. Security issues persist in integrating these sensors into secure communication networks when health data needs protection. This paper investigates sensor materials used in WBANs, emphasizing their performance aspects such as energy efficiency, data protection, and security measures. A new security framework adopts both Merkle-Hellman encryption and transmission techniques that use compression to defend WBANs data transmission. Our approach brings together advanced sensor materials and lightweight encryption algorithms to improve WBAN reliability while ensuring security at an optimal performance level. This research presents a new way to enhance the security and performance of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) by using improved sensor materials along with Merkle-Hellman encryption and compression methods. This new framework enhances energy economy, data security, and net-work resilience, making it a promising choice for future healthcare applications. Experimental tests prove that combining such materials with cryptographic methods enhances network efficiency and data security and energy management to offer a promising solution for healthcare applications of the future.