TY - JOUR
T1 - A privacy-strengthened scheme for E-healthcare monitoring system
AU - Huang, Chanying
AU - Lee, Hwaseong
AU - Lee, Dong Hoon
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the IT R&D program of MKE/KEIT [KI002113, Development of Security Technology for Car-Healthcare].
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - Recent Advances in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) offer unprecedented opportunities and challenges to the development of pervasive electronic healthcare (E-Healthcare) monitoring system. In E-Healthcare system, the processed data are patients' sensitive health data that are directly related to individuals' privacy. For this reason, privacy concern is of great importance for E-Healthcare system. Current existing systems for E-Healthcare services, however, have not yet provided sufficient privacy protection for patients. In order to offer adequate security and privacy, in this paper, we propose a privacy-enhanced scheme for patients' physical condition monitoring, which achieves dual effects: (1) providing unlinkability of health records and individual identity, and (2) supporting anonymous authentication and authorized data access. We also conduct a simulation experiment to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves better performance in terms of computational complexity, communication overheads and querying efficiency compared with previous results.
AB - Recent Advances in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) offer unprecedented opportunities and challenges to the development of pervasive electronic healthcare (E-Healthcare) monitoring system. In E-Healthcare system, the processed data are patients' sensitive health data that are directly related to individuals' privacy. For this reason, privacy concern is of great importance for E-Healthcare system. Current existing systems for E-Healthcare services, however, have not yet provided sufficient privacy protection for patients. In order to offer adequate security and privacy, in this paper, we propose a privacy-enhanced scheme for patients' physical condition monitoring, which achieves dual effects: (1) providing unlinkability of health records and individual identity, and (2) supporting anonymous authentication and authorized data access. We also conduct a simulation experiment to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves better performance in terms of computational complexity, communication overheads and querying efficiency compared with previous results.
KW - Anonymity
KW - Authentication
KW - E-Healthcare
KW - Privacy
KW - Unlinkability
KW - Wireless body area networks
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U2 - 10.1007/s10916-011-9774-2
DO - 10.1007/s10916-011-9774-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 21909719
AN - SCOPUS:84867301818
VL - 36
SP - 2959
EP - 2971
JO - Journal of Medical Systems
JF - Journal of Medical Systems
SN - 0148-5598
IS - 5
ER -