Internet of things in medical applications with a service-oriented and security approach: a survey

Javdani, Hamideh; Kashanian, Hooman

doi:10.1007/s12553-017-0180-8

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“…A typical architecture of IoMT monitoring devices involves sensors connected directly to the human body. In custom solutions such as [72,73], Arduino modules are used to gather medical data from the sensors [12,13,64,[68][69][70]98]. Figure 2 illustrates the communications among various monitoring devices such as wearable sensors and ingestibles.…”

Section: Physiologic Monitoring Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Security in IoMT Communications: A Survey

Koutras

Stergiopoulos

Dasaklis

et al. 2020

Sensors

113

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The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) couples IoT technologies with healthcare services in order to support real-time, remote patient monitoring and treatment. However, the interconnectivity of critical medical devices with other systems in various network layers creates new opportunities for remote adversaries. Since most of the communication protocols have not been specifically designed for the needs of connected medical devices, there is a need to classify the available IoT communication technologies in terms of security. In this paper we classify IoT communication protocols, with respect to their application in IoMT. Then we describe the main characteristics of IoT communication protocols used at the perception, network and application layer of medical devices. We examine the inherent security characteristics and limitations of IoMT-specific communication protocols. Based on realistic attacks we identify available mitigation controls that may be applied to secure IoMT communications, as well as existing research and implementation gaps.

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Section: Physiologic Monitoring Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We list them for completeness. In the healthcare environment such systems may be medical servers, coordinators, databases with health data, real-time monitors, mobile devices, laptops and network equipment [12,75,113].…”

Section: Other Ict Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security in IoMT Communications: A Survey

Koutras

Stergiopoulos

Dasaklis

et al. 2020

Sensors

113

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“…IoT devices are more vulnerable to different types of attacks on different layers of IoT architecture. There are studies concentrating on privacy and security issues and proposed solutions to address these issues [27][28][29]. Privacy and security are particularly important for the health sector because of the sensitive nature of human life data [30].…”

Section: Messaging Protocols (Rq 5)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological Features of Internet of Things in Medicine: A Systematic Mapping Study

Behmanesh

Sayfouri

Sadoughi

2020

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Nowadays, applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) have been introduced in different fields of medicine to provide more efficient medical services to the patients. A systematic mapping study was conducted to answer ten research questions with the purposes of identifying and classifying the present medical IoT technological features as well as recognizing the opportunities for future developments. We reviewed how cloud, wearable technologies, wireless communication technologies, messaging protocols, security methods, development boards, microcontrollers, mobile/IoT operating systems, and programming languages have been engaged in medical IoT. Based on specific inclusion/exclusion criteria, 89 papers, published between 2000 and 2018, were screened and selected. It was found that IoT studies, with a publication rise between 2015 and 2018, predominantly dealt with the following IoT features: (a) wearable sensor types of chiefly accelerometer and ECG placed on 16 different body parts, especially the wrist (33%) and the chest (21%) or implanted on the bone; (b) wireless communication technologies of Bluetooth, cellular networks, and Wi-Fi; (c) messaging protocols of mostly MQTT; (d) utilizing cloud for both storing and analyzing data; (e) the security methods of encryption, authentication, watermark, and error control; (f) the microcontrollers belonging to Atmel ATmega and ARM Cortex-M3 families; (g) Android as the commonly used mobile operating system and TinyOS and ContikiOS as the commonly used IoT operating systems; (h) Arduino and Raspberry Pi development boards; and finally (i) MATLAB as the most frequently employed programming language in validation research. The identified gaps/opportunities for future exploration are, namely, employment of fog/edge computing in storage and processing big data, the overlooked efficient features of CoAP messaging protocol, the unnoticed advantages of AVR Xmega and Cortex-M microcontroller families, employment of the programming languages of Python for its significant capabilities in evaluation and validation research, development of the applications being supported by the mobile/IoT operating systems in order to provide connection possibility among all IoT devices in medicine, exploiting wireless communication technologies such as BLE, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, NFC, and 5G to reduce power consumption and costs, and finally uncovering the security methods, usually used in IoT applications, in order to make other applications more trustworthy.

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“…Issues regarding protecting the privacy of patients and the security of medical details are two basic problems with the proper use of electronic medical services [33]. Different techniques are used to protect this healthcare data.…”

Section: Security-related Work For Medical Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing communication by attribute-based authentication in HetNet used for medical applications

Lone

Rashid

Gupta

et al. 2020

J Wireless Com Network

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One of the major applications of the Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) is in the healthcare system. Deploying HetNet in healthcare systems enables patients, physicians, and other stakeholders to communicate easily with each other. Due to the large growth in the network's subscribers, the security of the stored health data became one of the major concerns because unauthorized access to this data may lead to very serious complications, and unreliable transmission of data may lead to fatal risks to the patient's life. Therefore, taking data integrity into consideration, user authentication has become one of the main factors. However, significant research work has been performed at HetNet's physical layer to secure communication, but the result of this leads to an increase in hardware components. The increasing hardware components not only costs money but also power consumption. Therefore, this paper presents an alternate way of securing communication in HetNet at the network layer. However, resolving security problems at the network layer increases computational complexity. Nevertheless, earlier, some encryption techniques like identity-based encryption (IBE), symmetric key encryption (SKE), and public-key encryption (PKE) have been utilized for securing data. Due to their own disadvantages, this paper utilizes an attribute-based encryption (ABE) authentication scheme for securing health data in medical applications. With the help of this method, access to the intruders is denied which results in reduced communication overhead. This authentication scheme helps protect the essential information against attacks by the intruders. It includes a third party server that helps to authenticate and store patient's information. The whole security technique has been written in the form of HLPSL (high-level protocol specification language) codes, and the results are then validated with the help of AVISPA (automated validation of Internet security protocols and applications) tool.

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Internet of things in medical applications with a service-oriented and security approach: a survey

Cited by 32 publications

References 45 publications

Security in IoMT Communications: A Survey

Security in IoMT Communications: A Survey

Technological Features of Internet of Things in Medicine: A Systematic Mapping Study

Securing communication by attribute-based authentication in HetNet used for medical applications

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