Abstract
Wireless Body Area Network is an emerging technology that is used primarily in the area of healthcare applications. It is a low-cost network having the capability of transportability and adaptability. It can be used in location independent and long-term remote monitoring of people without disturbing their daily activities. In a typical WBAN system, sensing devices are either implanted or etched into the human body that continuously monitors his physiological parameters or vital signs. In such a network, trusts among the stakeholders (healthcare providers, users, and medical staff, etc.) are found of high importance and regarded as the critical success factor for the reliability of information exchange among them. In remote patient monitoring, the implementation of trust and privacy preservation is crucial, as vital parameters are being communicated to remote locations. Nonetheless, its widespread use, WBAN, has severe trust and privacy risks, limiting its adaptation in healthcare applications. To address trust and privacy-related issues, reliable communication solutions are widely used in WBANs. Given the motivation, in this paper, we have proposed a trust-based communication scheme to ensure the reliability and privacy of WBAN. To ensure reliability, a cooperative communication approach is used, while for privacy preservation, a cryptography mechanism is used. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using MATLAB simulator. The output results demonstrated that the proposed scheme increases service delivery ratio, reliability, and trust with reduced average delay. Furthermore, a fuzzy-logic method used for ranking benchmark schemes, that has been concluded that the proposed scheme has on top using comparative performance ranking.
Highlights
Trust may be defined as the kind of belief that something is reliable enough that will not harm or interrupt the smooth services of real-time applications
The detailed performance evaluation demonstrated that the proposed scheme outperforms the state-of-the-art previously proposed schemes in terms of trust, energy-efficiency, and reliability
WORK In a fast few years, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)-based technologies open a new way for remote healthcare treatment
Summary
Trust may be defined as the kind of belief that something is reliable enough that will not harm or interrupt the smooth services of real-time applications. The implanted bio-sensors monitor the biological changes insides the body and sent through control nodes to the gateway and further to the remote Medical Server (MS) [3]. In remote patient monitoring, trusted information has great importance for healthcare providers due to the sensitivity of data. A. HIGH-LEVEL DESCRIPTION In healthcare applications, the preservation of trust among bio-sensors and other devices, e.g., control nodes and gateways, is essential for the reliability of WBAN [11]. If un-trusted and unreliable data is transmitted to the medical server/medical database, healthcare providers (doctors and technicians) will make a wrong diagnosis, which can severely threaten the lives of patients In this context, trust and reliability in WBANs applications are highly valuable. In remote patient monitoring dealing with healthcare users, the provision of trust of entity and reliability of data are key challenges.
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