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Towards Provable Privacy Protection in IoT-Health Applications

Authors :

Samane Sobuti¹ دکتر سیاوش خرسندی²

1- دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرمان 2- دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر

Keywords :

IoT،mHealth،privacy،access control

Abstract :

Healthcare is one of major application areas in IoT. Medical wearable devices and patient-area cyber physical systems has a great potential to increase healthcare quality, expand access to services, reduce costs, and improve personal wellness and public health. However, iHealth also raises significant privacy and security challenges. Especially, in dealing with sensitive personal information, privacy issues in IoT-health applications are not adequately addressed. Despite extensive studies in protecting patient privacy in iHealth, the solutions are by large opportunistic, that is, protection mechanisms are proposed to be applied wherever possible without proving or analyzing their sufficiency. In this paper, we provide an end-to-end analysis of a patient’s data flow and develop a framework with sufficient set of protection mechanisms to guarantee end-to-end threat mitigation. The proposed framework encompasses the three aspects of privacy in iHealth, namely, access control, trust management and data protection.