A secure system for pervasive social network-based healthcare
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Modern technologies of mobile computing and wireless sensing prompt the concept of pervasive social network (PSN)-based healthcare. To realize the concept, the core problem is how a PSN node can securely share health data with other nodes in the network. In this paper, we propose a secure system for PSN-based healthcare. Two protocols are designed for the system. The first one is an improved version of the IEEE 802.15.6 display authenticated association. It establishes secure links with unbalanced computational requirements for mobile devices and resource-limited sensor nodes. The second protocol uses blockchain technique to share health data among PSN nodes. We realize a protocol suite to study protocol runtime and other factors. In addition, human body channels are proposed for PSN nodes in some use cases. The proposed system illustrates a potential method of using blockchain for PSN-based applications.
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Researchers have called for extending technical boundaries of framework development to improve scalability and functionality.
“Further, in order to improve the scalability (Zhang et al., 2016) and functionality (Wong et al., 2019) of previously proposed frameworks, researchers have called for the need to extend the current technical boundaries of framework development, e.g. by consideration of novel blockchain platforms (Rahmadika & Rhee, 2019).”
From Blockchain in healthcare: A systematic literature review, synthesizing framework and future research agenda (2020) · cites this paper as Zhang et al., 2016
The Introduction (page unavailable) says that pervasive social network-based healthcare involves a large number of mobile nodes and requires a mechanism for them to share health data easily. That supports a scalability-related need, but the paper does not explicitly call for extending the technical boundaries of existing frameworks to improve scalability. The sentence cites other works for functionality and novel blockchain platforms, so those points are not assessed against Zhang et al. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredPrior studies addressed authentic data mobilization, avoidance of data leakage or double spending on storage, and perpetual data preservation.
“For instance, prior studies have addressed issues pertaining to authentic data mobilization (Brogan et al., 2018), avoidance of data leakage (Zhang et al., 2016;Zhou et al., 2018) or double spending on storage (Rahmadika & Rhee, 2019), and perpetual data preservation (H.Li et al., 2018).”
From Blockchain in healthcare: A systematic literature review, synthesizing framework and future research agenda (2020) · cites this paper as Zhang et al., 2016
A few studies reported algorithm-specific constraints including lack of mature scheme for PSN-based blockchains and lack of optimized MAM module library.
“A few studies have reported constraints specific to their developed algorithms, such as a lack of a mature scheme for PSNbased blockchains for healthcare (Zhang et al., 2016), and a lack of an optimized masked authenticated messaging (MAM) module library (Brogan et al., 2018).”
From Blockchain in healthcare: A systematic literature review, synthesizing framework and future research agenda (2020) · cites this paper as Zhang et al., 2016
Framework scalability and performance efficiency may be affected by continual upgrade requirements, computational load of sensor data, keyword set size, disk space, and network setup of blockchain type.
“The scalability and performance efficiency of a framework may also be affected by issues such as requirements for continual upgrades by the utilized system (Kaur et al., 2018), the computational load of sensor data (Zhang et al., 2016), keyword set size (A. Zhang & Lin, 2018), the amount of disk space, and the network set-up required by the type of blockchain, e.g.Ethereum, used in the model (Qua”
From Blockchain in healthcare: A systematic literature review, synthesizing framework and future research agenda (2020) · cites this paper as Zhang et al., 2016
Four publications proposed to use blockchain for building a personal health record system that could bridge the gap between the patient and institution-specific EHRs.
“Four publications [25,27,28,48] proposed to use blockchain for building a personal health record system that could bridge the gap between the patient and institutionspecific EHRs.”
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Traditional client-server and cloud-based healthcare data management systems suffer from single point of failure, data privacy, centralized data stewardship, and system vulnerability.
“The traditional client-server and cloud-based healthcare data management systems suffer from the issues of single point of failure, data privacy, centralized data stewardship, and system vulnerability.”
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Xia et al.'s BBDS limits secure sharing of sensitive medical information to invited and verified users.
“However, their secure sharing of sensitive medical information is limited to invited and verified users.”
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- XIN HUANG received the B.E. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004, the M.S. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in 2008, the Licentiate degree from Mid Sweden University in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Oxford in 2015. He is currently a Lecturer with Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His current research interests include usable security proto- cols, software defined network, and Internet of Things.
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- Authors
- Zhang, J., Xue, N., & Huang, X.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (CN)
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 4
- Pages
- 9239-9250
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2561097737
- Cited by
- 361
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 59 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 8
- FWCI
- 31.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- XJTLU research development fund projects (RDF140243, RDF150246)
- Suzhou Science and Technology Development Plan (SYG201516)
- Jiangsu Province National Science Foundation (BK20150376)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Keywords
- health data sharing, IEEE 802.15.6, blockchain, resource-constrained sensor nodes, human body channel, wireless communication security, mobile health
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