CPLM: Cloud facilitated privacy shielding leakage resilient mobile health monitoring

Abstract

Cloud-assisted mobile health (mHealth) monitoring is a revolutionary approach to provide decision support in the health care sector. It employs not only mobile communications but also cloud computing technologies to deliver timely suggestions. Its main objective is to not only improve the quality of healthcare service but also to decrease the healthcare expenditure. In spite of the benefits it offers, needless to say the acceptance of such a mobile health monitoring system is affected as it doesn't shield the patients' personal data and also the data of the medicare service providers. As a result of which the wide deployment of mHealth technology is hindered and the patients' consent to participate in such a mobile medicare monitoring scheme is abated. Cloud Facilitated Privacy Shielding Leakage Resilient Mobile Health Monitoring addresses the fore mentioned limitations by offering a privacy shield to the involved parties and their data in addition to handling the side channel attack. To take into consideration the resource constraints of the parties involved, outsourcing decryption and proxy re-encryption are implemented to transfer the computational effort of the privacy shielding scheme to the cloud server without affecting the personal data of the clients and that of the Medicare providers. The side channel attack is handled by implementing a Virtual machine policing approach.