An IoT-Based Authentication Protocol for Securing Healthcare Medical Data

Abstract

In today’s world, the Internet of Things (IoT) is an important computing and communication platform where information and communication technology integrate diverse embedded devices to the Internet for performing information exchange. Due to the enormous growth of this technology, embedded devices are becoming more sophisticated day by day and are being used in various areas of life. IoT aims to integrate several smart and heterogeneous devices, technologies, tools, etc., through the Internet for remote access and data exchange. It is worth to mention that the number of elders with a chronic disease which normally cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication is increasing every year. The chronic disease needs continuous monitoring of significant crucial signs of the patients. Today, this is usually performed via different cabled sensors attached to the patient and connected to bedside monitors. The integration of IoT devices and a cloud becomes an attractive solution for elderly people to resolve their health issues instantly without visiting a hospital. However, the security of the patient’s important health information either during transmission or collecting them is a very challenging issue. This chapter aims to introduce an authentication based security scheme namely, AUP for protecting patient’s health data in the IoT environment using NS2 simulation environment. This work attains an essential requirement and outperforms existing methods.