Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and wireless medical sensor networks have significantly improved remote healthcare monitoring. In a healthcare monitoring system, many resource-limited sensors are deployed to sense, process and communicate the information. However, continuous and accurate operations of these devices are very important, especially in the infant incubator monitoring system. Because important decisions are made on the received information. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the authenticity between the incubator monitoring system and doctors. In this work, a public key encryption based computationally efficient mutual authentication protocol is proposed for secure data transmission between incubator monitoring systems and doctors or administrators. The proposed protocol improves performance and reduces the computational cost without compromising the security. The security analysis part shows the strength of the proposed protocol against various attacks, performance analysis part shows that the proposed protocol performs better than other existing protocol based on Rivest–Shamir–Adleman and elliptic-curve cryptography schemes.
Highlights
In the European countries, women, those who are working up to 40 h and above in a week and those who are travelling long distances to work, they are giving birth to premature babies [1]
Internet of Things (IoT)-based wireless medical sensor networks consist of sensor devices, cloud server and users
A new encryption scheme and mutual authentication protocol was developed for the energy limited wireless medical sensor networks and low power networks that are implemented in remote infant incubator monitoring system
Summary
In the European countries, women, those who are working up to 40 h and above in a week and those who are travelling long distances to work, they are giving birth to premature babies [1]. Born babies may get affected by a lot of health issues [4] They need to stay longer days in the hospital than normal babies. Some premature babies need to take care of using the incubator system in the hospital to avoid health issues. There is a need for efficient infant incubator monitoring system to overcome the above problems by using a wireless medical sensor network [8,9,10]. It is capable of collecting and transmitting medical information to the doctors and relatives, who are in a remote location.
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